Speaking at PI North America’s General Assembly Meeting last week in Phoenix, Keith Jones, president of system integrator Prism Systems, insisted that there’s a growing need for tighter integration between automation vendors and integrators. We’re seeing it across all industries—the growing level of complexity in automation systems means increased demand for the combination of technical and domain expertise. The integrators need the technical expertise from the automation suppliers, and the vendors need help executing projects for their customers.
Rockwell Automationemphasized that point this week as it scooped up the largest independent system integrator in North America,Maverick Technologies。Rockwell引用了扩展领域知识的动机，并帮助为几个不同行业提供完整的客户，包括化学，食品和饮料和石油和天然气。该公司表示，收购显着加强了Rockwell在关键过程和批量应用中的专业知识。
“工业控制和信息解决方案most effective when they result from close collaboration between a knowledgeable supplier and the user,” said Ken Champa, senior vice president of control products and solutions for Rockwell. “The combination of our global industrial automation leadership with Maverick’s platform-independent domain expertise will help our customers reduce complexity and realize unprecedented productivity.”
行业4.0和工业互联网（IIOT）是趋势，使供应商和集成商更加重要，更加密切合作。罗克韦尔指出了所谓的企业，注意到收购有助于支持这种增长战略，旨在将信息与整个企业联系在厂房上，以推动新的业务价值。这对于处理客户尤为重要，他们的正常运行时间和连续性能至关重要。
“We will continue to deliver our domain expertise, now with the power of a Fortune 500 industrial automation leader at our side,” said Paul Galeski, Maverick’s founder and CEO. “This creates the best combination available to help uncover the benefits of information that drives performance in process industries.”
Maverick is headquartered in Columbia, Ill., with 21 locations in the U.S. and more than 300 engineers and technical salespeople.
