Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s largest companies dedicated to industrial automation, said it has acquired leading systems integrator Maverick Technologies to expand domain knowledge and help deliver innovative control and information solutions to customers in industries such as chemical, food and beverage, and oil and gas.

The acquisition significantly strengthens Rockwell Automation’s expertise in key process and batch applications to help its customers realise greater productivity and improved global competitiveness through process control and information management solutions, said a statement from Rockwell Automation.

On the acquisition, Ken Champa, the senior vice president of Control Products and Solutions at Rockwell Automation, said: "Industrial control and information solutions are most effective when they result from close collaboration between a knowledgeable supplier and the user."

"The combination of our global industrial automation leadership with Maverivck’s platform-independent domain expertise will help our customers reduce complexity and realize unprecedented productivity," he stated.

Maverick Technologies, located in Columbia, US, is the largest independent systems integrator in North America, and a global leader in industrial automation, enterprise integration and strategic manufacturing solutions. The company boasts of over 300 engineers and technical sales staff.

According to Champa, the acquisition supports the Rockwell Automation's growth strategy to help customers increase global competitiveness by adopting The Connected Enterprise – a vision that connects information across the plant floor with the entire enterprise to drive new business value.

This is particularly important to process customers whose uptime and continuous performance are critical, he added.

“We will continue to deliver our domain expertise, now with the power of a Fortune 500 industrial automation leader at our side,” remarked Paul Galeski, the founder and chief executive of Maverick Technologies.

“This creates the best combination available to help uncover the benefits of information that drives performance in process industries,” he added.

Headquartered in Milwaukee (US), Rockwell Automation employs approximately 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.-TradeArabia News Service