North American Manufacturing Integrator RoviSys Opens Singapore Facility, Builds
Local Engineering Staff
SINGAPORE, Apr. 29 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
In spite of the current economic conditions, a US company that provides
automation services to manufacturers is following through on long-developed plans
to establish a Southeast Asia base here.
Ohio-based The RoviSys Company is moving into a project support office this
month at The Strategy Building at International Business Park in Jurong and is
hiring local engineering staff. One of the largest independent automation system
integrators in North America, RoviSys has 200 engineers and developers in Ohio
and North Carolina.
"We're working out details on the final configuration and build out of our
space, but the phones are on and we're meeting with and serving clients," said
James Riccardi, an automation project manager who serves as managing director for
RoviSys Asia Company Limited. The company has made a half-dozen job offers.
"We couldn't postpone any longer," Riccardi said. "We have projects here
worth more than $10 million and the expectation of earning more business in the
region. We think, and our clients think, that the current period will pass. They
want to be ready when it does."
implementation services to life sciences, chemicals, glass, oil and gas and other
process manufacturing companies. Advanced automation services include process
control systems, validation services, distributed control system migration,
electrical engineering design and industrial campus energy management and related
solutions.
Work in Asia includes optimization and chemical automation design projects in
China, automation of high tech glass production in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and India
and life sciences and solar panel production in Singapore.
The new hires will supplement the dozen RoviSys employees already based in
the region, Riccardi said. Local staff could expand to 20 to 40 people within two
years, he said, although the company remains cautious for now.
"We're fortunate manufacturers in the region are continuing to invest in
improving their production capabilities and that we are positioned to meet their
needs at this time," said Riccardi. "We certainly believe Singapore remains the
best base for our business in Southeast Asia."
Riccardi's project experience includes managing validated control systems for
greenfield and existing pharmaceutical operations. He has also worked on glass
batch house, synthetic fuel and other operations. He worked for ABB Bailey and
Air Products and Chemicals before joining RoviSys in 2000. He graduated from The
Ohio State University with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and is
a registered professional engineer (PE) in Ohio.
Founded in 1989, RoviSys has completed more than 3,000 projects for batch and
continuous process manufacturing clients throughout North America, South America
and Asia.
Contacts:
James Riccardi
RoviSys Asia Company Pte Ltd
2 International Business Park
#03-25 The Strategy
Singapore 609930
jim_riccardi@rovisys.com
Richard Ciammaichella
The RoviSys Company
Aurora, Ohio USA
330.995.1821
rcc@rovisys.com
Jerry Pignolet
Power Marketing/PR
Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA
440.527.0446
jerry@powermarketingpr.com
SOURCE: The RoviSys Company
CONTACT: James Riccardi,
RoviSys Asia Company Pte Ltd,
jim_riccardi@rovisys.com;
Richard Ciammaichella,
The RoviSys Company,
+1-330-995-1821,
rcc@rovisys.com;
or Jerry Pignolet,
Power Marketing/PR,
+1-440-527-0446,
jerry@powermarketingpr.com
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