PDC Milestones

PDC co-founder Dr. Walter W. Mosher was 22 years old and focused on his engineering studies at UCLA when he started Precision Dynamics Corporation with three investors in 1956. The company developed what was then a revolutionary innovation: a single-piece wristband, no parts, no tools necessary. It sold immediately and became the system of choice for hospitals worldwide.

With steady growth, PDC blazed new trails and set new standards, developing identification solutions for multiple markets, including healthcare, entertainment/recreation, law enforcement, and more. Today, PDC provides more wristbands to the healthcare market than all competitors combined.

In 1972 PDC expands its product offering to address the identification and crowd control needs for entertainment & recreation markets. Visa Band quickly becomes the market leader, serving thousands of customers worldwide. Visa Band is also the preferred choice of the world's top venues, including the Super Bowl, the Summer Olympics, and Wimbledon .

PDC becomes the first company to provide Inmate ID Solutions for law enforcement and correctional facilities in 1976. Today, Clincher covers virtually the entire inmate ID market, helping facilities identify and track inmate population.

Focusing on accurate and convenient identification, PDC develops the first imprinter style wristband. Today PDC offers the most extensive line of imprinter wristbands available.

Setting the standards in Automatic Wristband ID, PDC creates the first bar code wristband system. Using computer automation, PDC bar code bands minimize medical errors while maximizing economic efficiencies for nursing and medical staff. More hospitals choose PDC bar code bands than any other system in the world.

In 1995, PDC becomes the first wristband identification company to earn the coveted ISO-9001 (International Standards Organization) certification at our main facility in San Fernando, CA. Plans to establish certification at the facility in Tijuana, Mexico are underway.

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PDC's purchase of the assets of the Mark-Clark and Secur-Ticket divisions of M-C Industries expands the company's product offering in healthcare and entertainment/recreation markets. Based in Topeka, Kansas, M-C Industries was established in 1957.

As the next step in wristband identification after bar coding, PDC develops the revolutionary Smart Band RFID System. The system contains a microchip and antenna, which allows information to be written and retrieved by RFID scanners. Representing the new wave of the future in positive identification, Smart Band provides maximum accuracy, security, and streamlined operations.

Mr Hutchinson was appointed to the PDC Board of Directors in June, 2002. Walter W. Mosher, former PDC President and co-founder, now serves as Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors for PDC.

Gary E. Hutchinson, PDC President and Chief Executive Officer, creates the   Advanced Marketing & Technology Group, a new PDC organization focused on the   design, development, and marketing of automatic identification technologies. Robin Barber, formerly Director of North American Sales for PDC, is appointed   Vice President of AMAT.

PDC expands internationally and opens a 50,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Mexico, representing the company’s continued growth.

PDC expands its patron management identification solutions with AgeBand, an electronic wristband system to help prevent underage drinking. AgeBand ensures positive patron identification and age verification by printing the patron's name, "Age ID Verified 21," and the last four digits of their driver's license number on an AgeBand wristband.

PDC enters the cashless, wireless, point-of-sales market with Smart Kiosk™, a free-standing booth with touch-screen that allows patrons to load money using cash, credit or debit cards onto RFID wristbands.

PDC establishes its first European Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium with the acquisition of its long-time distributor MFR Europe, now PDC Europe.

PDC expands its line of Auto  ID product with the DR1000 Dual RFID  and Bar Code reader designed for use in medical and commercial applications.

PDC partners with Hewlett-Packard  Asia Pacific to help implement RFID wristband solutions in the Asia  Pacific healthcare market.

Read about the beginnings and milestones of PDC over the past 50 years

Hollister Ident-A-Band^® hospital wristband and WrisTicket entertainment wristband product lines purchased by PDC.

PDC re-brands Visa^® Band Wristbands to VIP^® Band to reinforce customer-centric business approach.

Water Street Healthcare Partners, a Chicago private-equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, acquires a significant stake in Precision Dynamics Corporation.