Critical Manufacturing develops a manufacturing execution system (MES) for manufacturers of discrete products. The software records production orders, product traceability, quality and regulatory compliance, and connects to enterprise systems and factory automation. According to the vendor's deployment documentation, the system is installed in the customer's own infrastructure, in a private data centre or in a public cloud such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
The company is headquartered in Porto (Maia), Portugal, and has been part of the ASMPT group since 2018. ASMPT, a supplier of assembly and packaging solutions for semiconductors that is listed in Hong Kong, announced a strategic investment at the time without disclosing the size of its stake. Because the customer decides where the MES runs, data location depends on that choice; the documentation consulted does not describe a hosting service run by the vendor. For a European organisation, the key questions are where production data is stored, who administers the system, and whether the parent group or a support partner has remote access.