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MAVERICK Technologies is a global engineering, systems integration and operational consulting firm headquartered in Columbia, Ill., in the metropolitan St. Louis area. The company provides services for continuous production, batch production and discrete manufacturing clients in locations around the world.

History
MAVERICK Technologies was founded in 1999 as a next-generation resource dedicated to helping businesses reach new levels of success. Since then, MAVERICK has grown and acquired numerous companies, including Software Architects Inc., RHES Inc. (Vision Tech.), Professional Maintenance Consultants (PMC), General Electric Energy's Automation Services (GEAS), CF Picou, Laplace Technologies, Mission Controls and Program4 Engineering. The acquisition of GEAS in 2005 positioned MAVERICK as the largest independent systems integrator in North America.1

Areas of Work MAVERICK's customer solutions span from the plant floor to the boardroom. The company focuses on integrating "from the plant floor up," instead of beginning with management information systems and working down. MAVERICK provides services at three enterprise levels: the plant-floor industrial automation level, the middle level of business intelligence and the top level of enterprise systems. Industrial automation work ranges from process automation and field services to network and data communications. Business intelligence projects include manufacturing execution systems (MES) implementation, enterprise application integration (EAI) and enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI). Enterprise system-level work includes the implementation and optimization of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. MAVERICK also integrates systems between the levels and across functional departments to improve efficiency.

Technology Partners While MAVERICK takes a platform-independent approach to every project, the company has developed meaningful sales and marketing partnerships with more than 25 leading industrial automation and business solution providers. For example, MAVERICK is a Microsoft&reg; Gold Certified Partner2 for Microsoft Business Solutions, a Wonderware ArchestrA Certified System Integrator (SI)3 and a member of the AspenTech Partner Network.4

Industry Standards MAVERICK works closely with the International Society of Automation (ISA), a nonprofit automation standards organization. ISA thanks several MAVERICK employees on its Web site5 for their contribution to the Certified Automation Professional&reg; (CAP&reg;) program. MAVERICK's founder and CEO, Paul J. Galeski, is a member of the CAP Steering Team and an ISA Fellow.6 In June 2009 Randy Dwiggins, a senior consultant at MAVERICK, was elected the chair of the ISA-88 committee for developing batch control standards.7 MAVERICK also offers many ISA regional training courses8 to employees, clients and other automation professionals through MAVERICK University, its center for continuous learning.

Awards MAVERICK has received several awards. Most notably, MAVERICK has been named six times to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list.9 In 2008, MAVERICK was named the Frost & Sullivan North American System Integrator Company of the Year.10

References Plant Services Industry News Microsoft Solution Finder Wonderware System Integrators AspenTech Partner Network ISA Contributors ISA 2009 Fellows ISA88, Batch Control ISA Training <li>Inc. 5000 MAVERICK Technologies Company Profile</li> <li>Industry Leaders Recognized with Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards</li> </ol>