Maverick Technologies is an

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and

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company. It 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, Inc. Magazine cited MAGNUM Technologies as one of the nation's fastest growing companies. In 1997, MAGNUM Technologies was sold to

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the year ...

, 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 Software Architects, also an Inc. 500 company. Between 2002 and 2004, MAVERICK Technologies acquired RHES Inc. and Professional Maintenance Consultants. In 2005, they acquired GEAS (

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

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and

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in 2008 and

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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 Inc. 500 fastest growing companies five times. In 2016, MAVERICK Technologies was acquired by

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Services

MAVERICK Technologies provides

and strategic manufacturing solutions to manufacturing and processing industries worldwide. It serves

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and

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, upstream and downstream

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, consumer packaged goods, high-tech manufacturing,

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, and power and

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industries through a network of employees and international partners.

Industrial automation

MAVERICK’s

services comprise

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...

solutions including automation engineering, process automation,

integration, regulatory-compliant systems and services and distributed control system migration; field services, which include

construction management Construction management (CM) aims to control the quality of a construction project's scope, time, and cost (sometimes referred to as a project management triangle or "triple constraints") to maximize the project owner's satisfaction. It uses pro ...

, technician/calibration, outage services and planning,

maintenance The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installa ...

and installation; and advanced process control services.

Enterprise integration

MAVERICK’s

services comprise manufacturing IT services, including demand planning, production planning and scheduling, sourcing and

procurement Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. The term may also refer to a contractual ...

logistics Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...

and distribution, manufacturing execution/production management, manufacturing intelligence and

quality management Total quality management, Total Quality management (TQM), ensures that an organization, product, or service consistently performs as intended, as opposed to Quality Management, which focuses on work process and procedure standards. It has four mai ...

; and business solutions, which include Microsoft Dynamics AX,

customer relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategic process that organizations use to manage, analyze, and improve their interactions with customers. By leveraging data-driven insights, CRM helps businesses optimize communication, enhance cus ...

(CRM), enterprise manufacturing intelligence (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 operational strategy, productivity improvements, energy optimization and

safety Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings The word 'safety' entered the English language in the 1 ...

Paul Galeski

Paul Galeski, CEO and President of MAVERICK Technologies, was named one of Fast Forward's '40 under 40,' and St. Louis Business Journal ‘Who’s Who in Technology,’ a listing of top young

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area executives. In 2002, Galeski was awarded the Illinois Entrepreneur of the Year and later elected to an

International Society of Automation The International Society of Automation (ISA) Is a non-profit technical society for engineers, technicians, businesspeople, educators and students, who work, study or are interested in automation and pursuits related to it, such as instrumentatio ...

(ISA) Fellow appointment. Galeski holds a bachelor's degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale, Illinois. Board of trustees The university is governed by the nine member SIU Board of T ...

, 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

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

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 EY, previously known as Ernst & Young, is a multinational corporation, multinational professional services partnership, network based in London, United Kingdom. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and PwC, it is one of the Big Four accounting firms, Big F ...

’s Illinois Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award * 2002–2004, 2006, 2008 — Named to the Inc. 500 * 2003 — Achieved Microsoft® Business Solutions Partner status for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX * 2006 — St. Louis Business Journal Top 50 “Best of Best” * 2007 — Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Microsoft Business Solutions * 2007–2008, 2009 — Named to the Inc. 5000 * 2008 —

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North American System Integrator of the Year * 2009 —

Control Engineering Control engineering, also known as control systems engineering and, in some European countries, automation engineering, is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with d ...

System Integrator of the Year Finalist * 2011 —

System Integrator of the Year * 2012 —

System Integrator Hall of Fame * 2015 —

System Integrator of the Year

Acquisitions

* 1999 — Software Architects, Inc. * 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

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* Emerson *

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building automation, industrial automa ...

* Ilitha * Insist Avtomatika LLC * Mannai Technical Services * MPE Industrial Automation * Omnicon LTDA * Pektek Industries * Brian Maverick Waterfield * Prime Sources Limited * Profa *

Schneider Electric Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational corporation that specializes in digital automation and energy management. Registered as a Societas Europaea, Schneider Electric is a ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, publicly traded on the Euronex ...

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...

* Wonderware * Yokogawa

Areas of focus

* Advanced process control (APC) * Automation engineering *

Computerized maintenance management system A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is any software package that maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their job ...

(CMMS) *

Construction management Construction management (CM) aims to control the quality of a construction project's scope, time, and cost (sometimes referred to as a project management triangle or "triple constraints") to maximize the project owner's satisfaction. It uses pro ...

* Control systems integration *

Customer relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategic process that organizations use to manage, analyze, and improve their interactions with customers. By leveraging data-driven insights, CRM helps businesses optimize communication, enhance cus ...

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

Enterprise integration Enterprise integration is a technical field of enterprise architecture, which is focused on the study of topics such as system interconnection, electronic data interchange, product data exchange and distributed computing environments. It is a con ...

* Enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) * Field Services * Front end engineering and design (FEED) * Human-machine interface (HMI) * Industrial automation integration * Industrial security * Installation * Instrument Diagnostics *

Laboratory information management system A laboratory information management system (LIMS), sometimes referred to as a laboratory information system (LIS) or laboratory management system (LMS), is a software-based solution with features that support a modern laboratory's operations. K ...

s (LIMS) * Main Automation Contractor (MAC) * Maintenance and support contracts *

Manufacturing execution system Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how curr ...

s (MES) *

Manufacturing process management Manufacturing process management (MPM) is a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured. MPM differs from ERP/MRP which is used to plan the ordering of materials and other resources, set manufacturing ...

(MPM) * Microsoft Dynamics AX * Operational Consulting * Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) * Process automation *

Programmable logic controller A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is an industrial computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, machines, robotic devices, or any activity that ...

(PLC) *

Safety instrumented system In functional safety a safety instrumented system (SIS) is an engineered set of hardware and software controls which provides a protection layer that shuts down a chemical, nuclear, electrical, or mechanical system, or part of it, if a hazardous co ...

s (SIS) * Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) * System Diagnostics * Technician services / calibration

References

External links

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