The acquisition supports the Rockwell Automation 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.

"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 founder and CEO. "This creates the best combination available to help uncover the benefits of information that drives performance in process industries."

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