Critical Manufacturing empowers high performance operations for some of the most advanced manufacturers worldwide with innovative software technology and advanced services. Its new generation Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is an Industry 4.0 centerpiece, incorporating all necessary integration, mobile, connectivity and logical decentralization features.

This deep, unified system increases performance, control and quality for complex manufacturing operations.

Critical Manufacturing is a part of the Critical Group, a private group of companies founded in 1998 to provide solutions for mission and business critical information systems. Its success lies in bringing quality and innovation to its customers’ IT systems in a timely and cost effective manner. The group companies have a solid track record of delivering quality projects on time and within budget and have successfully released technologies and products worldwide.

Critical Manufacturing has its headquarters and main technical centre in Portugal and additional facilities in U.S.A., Germany and China.

Critical Manufacturing empowers high performance operations for some of the most advanced manufacturers worldwide with innovative software technology and advanced services.

Role

Critical Manufacturing will act as a technology provider - providing software and architecture development solutions.

The already existing MES - Manufacturing Execution System - may also be used as the core framework for integration and demonstration of the consortium results.

Information about Critical Manufacturing's MES can be found at:

http://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/en/cmnavigo-mes/overview

Key contribution

• Integration of a sophisticated MES in the context of a pilot line in semiconductor manufacturing environment in highly complex scenarios
• MES Enhancements to support Agile Facility
• Foundations of quality driven analytics
• Dissemination and Exploitation