Bill Arnold founded Production Specialties in 1976 with the charter to professionally represent quality companies to the electronic assembly industry. Production Specialties represents superior products from companies such as Air-Vac and Speedline, to name a few. Production Specialties has its headquarters in Livermore, California, the heart of the Silicon Valley although the territory covers all of Northern California and Northern Nevada Production Specialties offers a complete range of services with highly trained technical experts to ensure they offer complete solutions to their clients who can obtain the maximum benefit from their investment.

Production Specialties recognizes that its success rests in its commitment to a solid operating philosophy of "meshing our principal's products and our customer's need together for a synergistic solution". Production Specialties method of selling is to serve as knowledgeable experts of the product lines represented so that their clients and the principals feel they are an extension of their organizations.