Up Close with Augusto Vilarinho, Critical Manufacturing

EMSNOW met with Augusto Vilarinho, Head of Global Sales and Business Development, Critical Manufacturing at APEX 2024. Augusto explains the synergies between ASMPT and Critical, the importance of an end-to-end complete MES solution and Critical’s differentiator: the data analytics. The Critical data platform can capture all the data, but also enables trustworthy interpretation of the data and recommendations for actions based on the data. This ‘supervised action mode’ depends on humans to confirm and then execute these recommendations. This represents an evolution of the MES solution, Augusto says. He concludes with his insights into this year’s trade show season, opening with APEX.