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Discover the wide-ranging benefits of Primex Sync Synchronized Time systems. Boost efficiency, save time, and simplify facilitywide clock maintenance with a wired or wireless Primex Sync solution. Discover more in the blog posts below.

Primex Sync: Guaranteed Synchronized Time Throughout College Campuses

The National Center for Education Statistics lists 5,760 Title IX 3 postsecondary campuses in the U.S. as of the 2024-2025 academic year. Whether at a small private school, like the enrollment-of-14 Deep Springs College in eastern California, or a large university, like the sprawling multibuilding campus at the University of Texas at Austin, keeping individuals on time can be a difficult task. However, with a Primex Sync™ Synchronized Time solution, lectures, discussion classes, labs, and other courses can be better kept on time. With various analog and digital Primex clocks throughout a college campus, students, teaching staff, and visitors can all function on the same synchronous time.

Reminder: Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday, November 1, 2026

At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2026, nearly everyone in the U.S. and Canada will set their clocks back one hour (spring forward, fall back), resulting in earlier sunrises in the morning and less sun in the evening.

Healthcare patient being pushed in a wheelchair having a positive patient experience

Patient Experience vs. Patient Satisfaction: How Primex Can Strengthen Both

What is the difference between patient experience and patient satisfaction? Are they the same? Or what makes them different? Given their undeniable impacts, what solutions can health systems implement to strengthen both? Primex solutions!

Primex Bell Controllers and Synchronized Clocks: Streamlining Schools Together

Chatter, teachings, laughter, and maybe even some discipline... All things heard in a school! But listen with intent, and you'll hear another constant: bells. They let students know when class starts, when class ends, and school's out for the day. Given bells' importance, a school's bell system must be routinely checked for operability — and, while at it, checked if it's the most efficient system it can be.

Why Audio Alerts Fail in Schools: Strengthening Safety by Supplementing Audio Alerts with Visual Messaging

Every second matters when communicating an emergency to students, staff, and visitors, but PA system announcements don't always reach everyone. Fortunately, alternative technology exists in Primex Notify, which delivers safety information to everyone, regardless of noise levels.

Utilizing Synchronized Clocks to Help Hospital Workflow Efficiency

Hospitals and health systems are likely at the top of the list where someone wishes to hear "like clockwork" when asked how something went. There are many efficiency-boosting tools and process improvement initiatives out there, but have you ever thought about how clocks themselves could help?

Why School Clocks Drift and How to Provide Centralized Timekeeping

Time drift is an unfortunate part of most schoolwide clocks. However, Primex Sync clocks are not like most clocks. Find out why your clocks may drift and how centralized timekeeping from Primex can help.

How Synchronized Timekeeping and InfoBoard Displays Future-Proof Your Facility

Reliable, multifaceted time displays with critical communication capabilities are key to ensuring occupant safety and well-being at facilities.

Optimize Your Synchronized Time System with Supplemental Primex Sync Accessories

Being on time in any industry is essential, and a Primex Sync solution can help ensure timeliness. Add various accessories to your system, and you have facilitywide-optimizing tools at your disposal and protections in place to safeguard your Primex Sync clocks.

When Seconds Count: Bolstering Schools' Crisis Response Plan with Custom Notifications

Education facility managers can help strengthen emergency response protocols to effectively and efficiently disseminate critical notifications and updates.

5 Reasons Schools Should Use Message Boards to Break Through in an Age of Cluttered Information

Visual message reinforcement technology is essential to help schools communicate important information to students, who are bombarded with thousands of messages a day.

Fortifying Warehouse and Plant Operations with Synchronized Time and Visual Messaging Technology

What do employees, machinery, and procedures need to share to make manufacturing plants and warehouses successful? The answer is consistent mutual understanding and clear communication, which can be both facilitated by facilitywide synchronized timekeeping and easy-to-see visual messaging.

Synchronized Time: When to Upgrade Your School’s Timekeeping System

When should I update my school's clocks? What sort of synchronized time systems are available? What clock system is best for my school? If you find yourself asking these questions, you're in the right place! Check out this blog for the answers to your questions and more!

Leveraging Schoolwide Synchronized Clocks to Maximize Learning Time

Whether in single-building elementary schools or multifacility college campuses, clocks are often an overlooked yet essential part of any educational institution. When all clocks within a school are synchronized, their benefits go beyond simply telling time. They can help decrease tardiness, solidify schedules, and optimize standardized test-taking. Additionally, and possibly most importantly, synchronized clocks can be a tool to maximize learning time in the classroom.

The Classroom Revolution: How Schools Can Win Big with Cell Phone Bans

As high school cell phone bans become the norm throughout the U.S., students, parents, and staff must adapt accordingly to ensure safety and communication.

Is Your Healthcare Facility Prepared for a Compliance Audit?

Understanding the requirements of different types of healthcare audits and demonstrating compliance can be a challenge for any facility. In this article, understand how your facility can be prepared for anything.

Which Primex Sync Synchronized Time Technology is Right for Your Facility?

Primex Sync offers a range of synchronized time solutions designed to keep every clock in your facility running on the same precise schedule. Whether for a school, hospital, warehouse, or business, Primex provides four core technologies — Radio 72 MHz, Bluetooth® Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) — each tailored to different building types and needs. No matter your facility, Primex Sync enables reliable, synchronized timekeeping to enhance punctuality and efficiency.

Optimizing Resource Utilization with Synchronized Clocks and Asset Tracking Technology

Delivering high-quality patient care within a hospital or health system undoubtedly requires a lot of planning, intelligence, hard work, and other resources. Healthcare staff often must use their department-specific knowledge while collaborating with colleagues to create and execute a multidisciplinary care plan, which usually includes time-sensitive care delivery with vital technological resources. But in busier-than-ever facilities, and now with a broader range of healthcare technology devices available than ever before, what's the best way to help ensure timely care with these devices occurs? Read on for more!

Customizable Clock Faces Available for Your Facility!

Look around you — are your facility's clocks synchronized? Does the clock on the wall to your right tick along with the one on your left? What about visual appearance? Do they evoke any emotion? Or are they blank? If your answers weren't as you hoped, it's time to contact Primex!

Building Nurse Time Management Skills with Help from Primex Clocks

Effective time management is a crucial skill for nurses that can improve their well-being and the quality of care they deliver to their patients. As nurses remain exceptionally busy, time management skills have potentially never been more critical. Fortunately, there are many tips and tools nurses can utilize to boost their time management abilities, and they can be further solidified when working under Primex Synchronized Time.

Contemporary Inpatient Room Clocks: Supplemental Tool for Patient Empowerment

A patient empowerment tool — that may often get overlooked — is the power of time. Specifically, ensuring patients have easily viewable access to the current time, date, and day of the week can offer more benefits than one may think, and Primex Sync can help.

Supplementing Primex Automated Monitoring with Primex Clocks for Maximum Pharmacy Efficiency

By now, it's possible you've heard of OneVue Sense, a benefit-rich solution that offers automated monitoring to safeguard your pharmacy's valuable medications, vaccines, and workspaces. But did you know Primex offers another beneficial solution that can further optimize your pharmacy's efficiency? Read on to learn more!

Doctor Looking at DNA Through Magnifying Glass to Exemplify Precision Medicine

Supplementing Precision Medicine with Primex Solutions

Precision medicine isn't exactly a brand-new concept. The focus on such individualized treatment widened in 2015, as then-U.S. President Barack Obama introduced the precision medicine initiative. Optimize your healthcare facility, whether you've started your precision medicine journey or not, with help from Primex solutions. Read on to learn more.

Alleviate Emergency Department Waiting Times with Assistance from Primex Solutions

It's no secret to anyone in the healthcare industry that emergency department waiting times in the U.S. remain long. Of course, all hospitals and health systems have various contributing factors that determine how long a patient waits in the ED. Nevertheless, all healthcare facility EDs could prosper from the benefits a Primex Sync solution provides.

How Synchronized Clocks Can Improve Time Management of School Events

Schools are more than just a place for learning. Sure, learning may be the most important thing that occurs in schools, but schools often put on many events throughout the year that hold significant importance. And no matter the level of your school — from elementary to collegiate — managing events in a timely manner is essential, and Primex Sync can help.

Summer Upgrade Time: Primex Solutions for School Safety and Improvement

School's out for summer! As (most) students and teachers rejoice, classrooms will soon sit empty, and gone will be the hustle and bustle of students flowing through hallways. Sure, there will be some students attending and teachers instructing summer school, but there'll undoubtedly be some downtime within schools, libraries, and universities making for the perfect time for facility upgrades.

Synchronized Clocks: Helping to Ensure Proper Laboratory Turnaround Time

Whether or not your hospital or healthcare facility has its own lab, ensuring a prompt and appropriate turnaround time (TAT) for a lab sample can significantly impact patient satisfaction and clinical decision-making. TAT is widely defined as the time elapsed from when the lab receives the sample until the sample reports are sent back to the clinical staff with lab verification. Physicians may view TAT as the time between test ordering and result reporting. No matter the definition, both can factor into a patient's care outcome and experience. For facility leaders with in-house labs, think: when did you last analyze your lab's average TAT?

Strengthening Medication Administration at Your Healthcare Facility with Synchronized Time

According to the most recent Medicare cost reports in the American Hospital Directory, there are roughly 156.5 million combined annual patient days at hospitals throughout the United States. Nearly 5% of hospitalized patients experience an adverse drug event during their inpatient stay, as stated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Synchronized clocks from Primex can help build stronger medication administration routines for a higher level of patient safety.

Increasing Patient Satisfaction with Help from Facilitywide Synchronized Clocks

There's no denying the importance of patient satisfaction for every hospital or healthcare facility. Surely, striving for positive patient health outcomes is the number one goal, but patient satisfaction and experience can play an integral role in ensuring that happens.

Synchronized Time Systems: Primex Sync vs. Atomic Clocks

Synchronized clocks within hospitals, schools, offices, warehouses, and other facilities are essential. When all clocks within a facility display the same exact time, they help to keep operations, appointments, classes, meetings, and other important events on schedule. And when it comes time to choose a synchronized time solution, building managers and facility staff have options — but not all options are equal. Atomic clocks, given their well-deserved reputation for accuracy, are often considered. However, atomic time has some drawbacks, especially if trying to outfit a larger facility with synchronized clocks.

Primex OneVue Solutions: Ready-to-Use Construction Specs Explained

Primex OneVue solutions can improve any new building. From large-yet-segmented hospitals and schools to wide-open warehouses and transit centers, Primex technology can help strengthen timeliness, safety, and communication. But before these solutions can get to work, they often need to be included in new building plans that construction firms put together.

It's simple to replace wired clock systems with a wireless Primex Sync Solution

The Ease of Replacing Wired Time Systems with Primex Sync 72 MHz

Keeping activities on time can be vital within any facility, be it a school, hospital, pharmacy, or warehouse. Healthcare patients sometimes require and always deserve to receive on-time care. Classes and tests that start on time can help to make students feel less rushed. Warehouse product line or transit center efficiency is best when employees work cohesively under synchronized time.

Bettering Student Flow with Hallway Countdown Timers at Your School

Elementary and high school hallways are once again buzzing with students carrying textbooks, Trapper Keepers, and pencil cases as they navigate through their daily schedules. And the number of students can be many, as public school enrollment estimates in the U.S. for prekindergarten through grade 12 could include approximately 49.6 million students if an upward trend from Fall 2020 continues.

Importance of On-Time Surgical Starts in Healthcare and How Primex Can Help

The timely deliverance of care plays an essential role in many aspects of the healthcare industry. Seeing patients on time can maximize a schedule's allotment, which helps generate more revenue for the hospital or health system. Avoiding long wait times or constant reschedules can also improve patient satisfaction, contributing to increased reimbursement rates if HCAHPS scores are high.

Understanding the Benefits of Synchronized Time Systems at Manufacturing Facilities

From economic stimulation to bolstering the job market, manufacturing facilities contribute heavily to national and global business and communities. Because of this, it's essential that manufacturing plants are optimized for efficiency and productivity. With Primex Sync, reliable timekeeping is made easy!

Choosing Primex During Construction: What Differentiates Us From Others

From renovations to new construction, every build site deserves easily accessible, high-tech solutions that will help planners, builders, and future occupants alike. Primex, specified more than any other manufacturer and holding a history of nearly a 40% spec rate, is the easy choice for those high-tech solutions.

The Primex Proven Process: How This Differentiator Sets Your Facility Up for Success

By offering automated monitoring, synchronized time, and mass notifications, Primex can provide solutions that genuinely optimize facilities and workflows. Our solutions can also relieve stress and solve common bothers for employees like nursing staff, teachers, business leaders, and others.

PEPPM: How This Cooperative Can Help to More Quickly Improve Your Institution

The Pennsylvania-based cooperative purchasing program, PEPPM, is a nationally expansive operation that helps schools and other public institutions acquire new technology with less hassle; PEPPM ensures adherence to government requirements for using federal grants to purchase and create contracts and their clients get new tech faster.

Helping Provide Peace of Mind in Schools Through Mass Communication

School leaders are responsible for the health and safety of hundreds of staff and students every day. For this reason, it's essential that they are able to communicate quickly and effectively at all times. Primex Notify can help.

Mass Notification Systems Explained: Strengthening Communication with Primex Notify

No matter the event, mass communication systems can help facilities communicate about important happenings and procedures throughout an entire building.

Engineered Solution: How Primex Uses Site Evaluations to Ensure Synchronized Timekeeping

Synchronized time systems are essential to almost all successful organizations' functions, from patient care in hospitals to efficient schedules in schools and businesses. On-time medication administration, surgical start times, class changes, and even citywide transit systems are all reliant on a smooth and reliable time system to regulate operation.

Single Sign-On: How This Small Step Can Save Time and Bolster Cybersecurity

Do you often forget your online passwords? What if you only had one to remember? Enter single-sign-on technology.

Benefits of Software as a Service to Enhance Facility Management

Many of us — if not the majority of us — rely on technology every single day. Technology can be essential to getting work tasks completed, and that technology often makes our lives easier. The technology of Software as a Service (SaaS) is no different. Working together with Primex environmental sensors, InfoBoard™ displays, and synchronized clocks, Primex offers a SaaS solution to help maintain facility integrity, improve efficiencies, standardize operations, and increase safety — all obtainable through one point of internet access.

Leveraging Technology During New Hospital Design for Health and Safety

As technology continues to develop, it's imperative that both new and existing healthcare facilities are able to implement relevant, modern solutions during every stage of the building or renovation process.

Importance of Time Synchronization in Medical Facilities

While it may seem like a backdrop to patient care priorities, time synchronization plays an important role in the operational efficiency of healthcare facilities. When you think of your facility's operations, consider how often you turn to precision timekeeping to document events or incidents, track asset integrity, and keep patient care on schedule. Is your time system working for you? Or does your organization need to get back in sync?

The Future of Facility Planning with the Internet of Things

Rapid development of smart technologies is creating an Internet of Things that can provide robust data and operational understanding to the world of facility planning. Understand just how impactful it could be in this article.

Is Your Transportation Signage Ready for the New Normal?

Mass transit information signage needs are changing and require time displays and message systems to be networked together to update rapidly to handle emergencies and alerts. See how adopting digital solutions can enhance the passenger experience and improve health and safety.

How To Ensure Your Lab Is Running on Synchronized Time

It's important that your lab is functional with proper time synchronization. How will you identify whether your lab is running in sync? This article will explore ways to ensure your lab time is accurate across all operations, and how Primex solutions can help.

Synchronized Clock Maintenance: Is it Time to Upgrade Your Timekeeping System?

When you think about your facility's operations, how much confidence do you have in your synchronized clock system? Are classes starting when scheduled? Are procedures being tracked accurately? Do maintenance and IT teams get repeated requests to bring clocks back in sync? The answers to these questions reveal the overall efficiency of your operations.

How to Leverage Technology to Improve Code Blue Tracking and Compliance

Caring for patients is a taxing and demanding job. Care teams must be prepared to jump into action when hospital emergencies occur. Healthcare professionals care for multiple patients at once. What happens during a Code Blue and how are hospital emergencies handled efficiently?

How Facility Managers and Executives Can Support Caregiving Staff

With a new focus on cost reductions and improving patient care it's imperative that hospital facilities management teams get the right tools in the hands of physicians. Here we explore how facility managers and executive leadership can help.

How to Be a Champion of Innovation at Your Facility

The technology adoption lifecycle reveals how quickly they'll accept new technology. But as you introduce new technology to improve your facilities, what you really want to know is how to get real people to embrace change. Here, we detail four ways to do just that.

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