Critical Manufacturing

Critical Manufacturing is a manufacturing execution system (MES) vendor founded in 2009 in Porto, Portugal, and has been a subsidiary of chip-equipment group ASMPT since 2018 while keeping its own brand and product line. It serves complex, regulated production in semiconductor, electronics, medical device and industrial-equipment manufacturing, with units in Germany, China, the US, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Its MES platform coordinates production orders, material logistics, equipment automation and quality data in one system, adding a digital-twin module called fabLIVE that mirrors factory layout and process flow for planning and what-if analysis. AI copilots and mobile dashboards give plant managers real-time visibility across multiple sites and supply-chain tiers.

1. Core MES: order, resource and shop-floor execution management.

2. fabLIVE digital twin: virtual factory model for process simulation.

3. Automation integration: connects equipment, AMHS and robots on the line.

4. Quality & compliance: genealogy, SPC and audit trail for regulators.

5. Advanced planning: capacity-aware production scheduling.

6. AI copilot: natural-language assistant for shop-floor decisions.