Critical Manufacturing
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How Critical Manufacturing hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
242 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Critical Manufacturing scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 242 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Critical Manufacturing is a Portuguese software company founded in 2009 as a spin-off of Critical Software. Its manufacturing execution system runs high-technology factories in semiconductors, electronics and medical devices. The company belongs to the German ASMPT group and is rated a leader in industrial software.
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What It Takes to Run AI in Manufacturing
Key Takeaways AI in Manufacturing is becoming a core part of manufacturing execution systems (MES), with industry-specific models expected to gain ground over general-purpose AI. Production-ready AI remains uncommon, only about a third of MES vendors can
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How Ultradent Turned MES Into Its Quality Advantage
Key Takeaways Ultradent replaced paper batch records with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), creating a single source of truth across production, quality, equipment, and operator workflows. The MES builds preventive controls into manufacturing by enf
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What would you build if you started from a blank sheet?
This is the third blog post on the SAP ME Reset Window blog series, written by João Roque, architect and advocate for automation and connectivity at Critical Manufacturing. There is a question I have been asking manufacturing leaders in every conversation
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The SAP ME customization problem nobody talks about
This is the first blog post on the SAP ME Reset Window blog series, written by João Roque, architect and advocate for automation and connectivity at Critical Manufacturing. I want to talk about something that comes up in almost every conversation I have w
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What carries over from SAP ME to SAP DM? A Technical Comparison
This is the second blog post on the SAP ME Reset Window blog series, written by João Roque, architect and advocate for automation and connectivity at Critical Manufacturing. I have spent the better part of the last ten years building, extending, and maint
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You can vibe code an app. But should you vibe code a full MES?
Generative code or vibe code is the best tool we have ever had for building on top of a foundation. The mistake is using it to avoid building one. I have been seeing something I expect to see far more over the next two years. A manufacturer runs a serious
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When your infrastructure bottlenecks the semiconductor lab-to-fab transition
New fabs and innovation centers are being announced across every major region and the pressure to move from experiment to production is intensifying. Yet for many semiconductor R&D labs and emerging fabs, the systems meant to support that lab-to-fab trans
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The clock is ticking: why manufacturers can't afford to wait on their data foundation
The recently published eBook on Industry 4.0 and AI: What You Can Learn from the Leaders paints a revealing picture of where manufacturing stands today. Progress is real, investment is flowing, and ambition is high. Yet beneath the surface, a quieter cris
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The Role of System Integrators in MES Implementations
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are foundational to modern high-tech manufacturing. For manufacturers operating in domains supported by Critical Manufacturing MES, including semiconductors, electronics, medical devices, and industrial equipment, imp
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Educating the Factory of the Future: Why the Three Waves of Manufacturing Intelligence Require Years of MES-Driven Learning
Most leadership teams spend their days improving today's output and planning the next round of investments. Necessary priorities, yet increasingly insufficient. The real competitive battle is shifting somewhere far less visible: toward the factories that
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Critical Manufacturing over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
91/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL57%
C#43%
TypeScript36%
JavaScript29%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular29%
ASP.NET Core7%
LangChain7%
PyTorch7%
Databases
ClickHouse43%
PostgreSQL14%
MS SQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka29%
Kubernetes29%
.NET21%
Grafana21%
AI & ML
ChatGPT7%
Claude7%
LLM7%
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Full Critical Manufacturing tech stack
40 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
43/100
Stable
Open positions
7
1 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
212 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Support
40% ▲
Backend
20% ▼
DevOps
20% ▲
Early Careers
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Malaysia
Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack
Sep 2026
Removed Vector from stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Tijuana
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1 posted in 90 days
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1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
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Jobs
≈ $15k – $41k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia
SQL
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
DevOps
OpenShift
VMWare
Docker
Kubernetes
Hyper-V
Linux
Management
ITIL
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In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Malaysia
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
C#
ASP.NET Core
Databases
MS SQL
Frontend
Angular
DevOps
Git
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≈ $80k – $144k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Italy, Switzerland) • Full-Time • Porto
SQL
C#
OPC UA
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