Major process controls integrator RoviSys opens southeast facility
November 2005
AURORA, OHIO—The RoviSys Company, which has become one of the largest independent process automation and information solutions providers in North America, is opening a 6,750 square-foot southeast automation engineering and systems staging facility December 1st in Apex, North Carolina. The new location marks a departure from a longstanding belief for the 150-person company.
“We’ve long maintained that we could best serve our customers from one location,” said Richard Ciammaichella, director of process automation and control integration. “Today we’re privileged to have substantial and increasing demand from existing and new clients in the southeast and Research Triangle in particular. We can best serve their needs by basing significant resources near them.”
Since 2003, RoviSys has had as many as three dozen automation engineers on long-term assignments in the region, Ciammaichella said. Founded in 1989, the company has completed 3,000 projects for batch and continuous process manufacturing clients at plants throughout North America, South America and Asia, all from Northeast Ohio.
“We’ve grown by working consistently to understand customers so we produce meaningful results for them,” he said. “We implement the solution best for clients regardless of who makes the technology. We’ve developed a project collaboration and tracking system that allows them to see our progress at all times.”
Ciammaichella declined to provide names of clients in North Carolina. He did say growth here is driven partially by the company’s record managing highly-regulated pharmaceutical and biotechnology control system and control validation projects as well as plant and plant-to-office information technology initiatives.
In Pine Hill Business Park on Schieffelin Road, the Apex office can accommodate up to 50 engineers and developers. Some staff has already relocated to the area. Along with additional relocations, the company plans some local hiring and to continue to have Ohio-based staff travel to the area to fulfill project requirements.
Company managers also expect the number of employees at the 36,000 square-foot headquarters between Cleveland and Akron to increase in 2006, even with the relocations, Ciammaichella said.
Founded in 1989, RoviSys provides control system engineering, plant information integration, product development and related automation services to batch and continuous process manufacturers. Clients include large and small companies with pharmaceuticals, glass, chemicals, food and other batch and continuous production operations.