Maverick Technologies is an industrial automation, enterprise integration, operational consulting and sustaining services provider. The company has over 500 employees and 18 U.S. locations and operations worldwide and is the largest independent systems integrator in

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History

In 1989, Paul Galeski founded MAGNUM Technologies. In 1995,

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cited MAGNUM Technologies as one of the nation's fastest growing companies. In 1997, MAGNUM Technologies was sold to General Electric, where it became a GE Industrial Systems Division subsidiary. Paul Galeski continued to serve as President of the GE Industrial Systems Division until he left GE in early 1999. Later that year, Paul Galeski founded MAVERICK Technologies and acquired

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, also an

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company. Between 2002 and 2004, MAVERICK Technologies acquired RHES Inc. and Professional Maintenance Consultants. In 2005, they acquired GEAS ( General Electric Automation Services) and CF Picou, Inc. Between 2006 and 2009, MAVERICK Technologies acquired LaPlace Technologies, Mission Controls and Program4 Engineering. MAVERICK Technologies partnered with MPE Industrial Automation Europe and MPE Industrial Automation Asia to form the Global System Integrators Alliance (GSIA), a partnership that connects its members to more than 30 locations and 700 professionals worldwide. MAVERICK began international operations in the Netherlands and Thailand in 2008 and Singapore in 2009. As of 2011, MAVERICK Technologies had completed 10,000 projects in 45 countries on six continents, employs over 500 people globally and has been listed as one of the

fastest growing companies five times. In 2016, MAVERICK Technologies was acquired by Rockwell Automation.

Services

MAVERICK Technologies provides industrial automation, enterprise integration and strategic manufacturing solutions to manufacturing and processing industries worldwide. It serves

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, chemical and petrochemical,

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and downstream oil and gas, bakery, beverage,

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, protein,

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, and power and utilities industries through a network of employees and international partners.

Industrial automation

MAVERICK’s industrial automation services comprise automation solutions including automation engineering, process automation, industrial automation integration, regulatory-compliant systems and services and distributed control system migration; field services, which include

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, technician/calibration, outage services and planning, maintenance and installation; and

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services.

Enterprise integration

MAVERICK’s enterprise integration services comprise manufacturing IT services, including demand planning, production planning and scheduling, sourcing and procurement, logistics and distribution, manufacturing execution/production management, manufacturing intelligence and quality management; and business solutions, which include Microsoft Dynamics AX, customer relationship management (CRM),

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(EMI) and enterprise application integration (EAI).

Strategic manufacturing solutions

MAVERICK’s strategic manufacturing solutions comprise sustaining services, including industrial security solutions; and offers operational consulting services, which include

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, productivity improvements, energy optimization and safety.

Paul Galeski

Paul Galeski, CEO and President of MAVERICK Technologies, was named one of Fast Forward's '40 under 40,' and

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‘Who’s Who in Technology,’ a listing of top young St. Louis area executives. In 2002, Galeski was awarded the Illinois Entrepreneur of the Year and later elected to an International Society of Automation (ISA) Fellow appointment. Galeski holds a bachelor's degree in

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from Southern Illinois University, where he is a member of the inaugural class of the SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame and sponsor of the MAVERICK Technologies LLC Scholarship in Engineering. He is a graduate of the GE executive management school and the

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President's Program. He is also involved in expert witness testimony, and is a contributing author to Aspatore Books' Inside the Minds, a series of publications that examine C-level business intelligence.

Awards

* 2001–2004, 2006, 2008 — St. Louis Technology Fast 50 Award * 2002 — CEO Paul J. Galeski awarded Ernst & Young’s Illinois Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award * 2002–2004, 2006, 2008 — Named to the

* 2003 — Achieved Microsoft® Business Solutions Partner status for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX * 2006 —

Top 50 “Best of Best” * 2007 —

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for

Microsoft Business Solutions Microsoft Dynamics is a line of Business Applications, containing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM). Microsoft markets Dynamics applications through a network of reselling partners who provide speciali ...

* 2007–2008, 2009 — Named to the Inc. 5000 * 2008 — Frost & Sullivan North American System Integrator of the Year * 2009 — Control Engineering System Integrator of the Year Finalist * 2011 — Control Engineering System Integrator of the Year * 2012 — Control Engineering System Integrator Hall of Fame * 2015 — Control Engineering System Integrator of the Year

Acquisitions

* 1999 —

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* 2002 — Reed Hannebaum Engineering Services Inc. (RHES) * 2004 — Professional Maintenance Consultants (PMC) * 2005 — General Electric Automation Services (GEAS) * 2005 — CF Picou Inc. * 2006 — LaPlace Technologies * 2009 — Mission Controls * 2009 — Program4 Engineering * 2014 — CQS Innovation, Inc

Partnerships

* ABB Group * Emerson * Honeywell * Ilitha * Insist Avtomatika LLC * Mannai Technical Services * MPE Industrial Automation * Omnicon LTDA * Pektek Industries * Brian Maverick Waterfield * Prime Sources Limited * Profa * Schneider Electric *

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* Wonderware * Yokogawa

Areas of focus

Advanced process control In control theory, Advanced process control (APC) refers to a broad range of techniques and technologies implemented within industrial process control systems. Advanced process controls are usually deployed optionally and in addition to ''basic'' ...

(APC) * Automation engineering * Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) *

Construction management Construction management (CM) is a professional service that uses specialized, project management techniques and software to oversee the planning, design, construction and closeout of a project. The purpose of Construction management is to control ...

* Control systems integration * Customer relationship management (CRM) * DCS (Distributed Control System) migration * Demand planning * Energy optimization * Enterprise application integration (EAI) * Enterprise integration *

Enterprise manufacturing intelligence Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business and economics Brands and enterprises * Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company * Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company * Enterprise ...

(EMI) * Field Services * Front end engineering and design (FEED) * Human-machine interface (HMI) * Industrial automation integration * Industrial security * Installation * Instrument Diagnostics * Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) * Main Automation Contractor (MAC) * Maintenance and support contracts * Manufacturing execution systems (MES) * Manufacturing process management (MPM) * Microsoft Dynamics AX * Operational Consulting * Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) * Process automation *

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(PLC) * Safety instrumented systems (SIS) *

Supervisory control and data acquisition Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. It also covers sensors and o ...

(SCADA) * System Diagnostics * Technician services / calibration

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.mavtechglobal.com Technology companies of the United States