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David Lax Premier president and his team make factory floors more intelligent
DAVID L AX AND HIS TEAM at Premier System Integrators spend plenty of time on factory floors without getting involved with their clients’ actual mechanical processes. Instead, the company’s mechanical and computer engineers design the systems that show what’s going on with those production lines. As Lax, Premier’s president since last year, sums up, the company makes factories manufacturing processes more productive and intelligent. Premier’s ability to do that grew significantly earlier this year via the acquisition of Feed Forward, an Atlanta-area peer. That deal grew Premier’s workforce to 200 and added a Georgia office to go with locations in Middle Tennessee, Huntsville and Cincinnati. The company is on track to ring up $45 million in revenue this year. Lax started at Premier 22 years ago as an engineer out of college and spent a decade with the company before heading to business school with an eye on returning to the finance and accounting side of the business. After earning an MBA from Middle Tennessee State University and a master’s in finance from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, one of his projects was to study liquidity scenarios options for the firm’s five founders, who had joined forces in 1991.
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