# Critical Manufacturing MES: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/critical-manufacturing-mes/
Covers: July 29, 2025 to Oct. 20, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Critical Manufacturing MES: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/critical-manufacturing-mes/, updated 2026-11-11

> Critical Manufacturing MES is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 20, 2026.

"Critical Manufacturing, part of ASMPT, provides an MES-powered Industrial Operations Platform for manufacturers operating complex production environments, including semiconductor, electronics, medical devices and industrial equipment manufacturing." Plant and manufacturing engineering teams run execution, traceability and quality on it. The AI today: a catalog of purpose-built AI agents that answer production questions and build dashboards and pages on the MES data model, plus MES and Analytics Copilots. Source: [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-expands-industrial-operations-platform-with-purpose-built-ai-agents/).

## Facts

- Site: [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/)
- Category: MES and operations management
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-critical-manufacturing-mes)

"Critical Manufacturing, part of ASMPT, provides an MES-powered Industrial Operations Platform for manufacturers operating complex production environments, including semiconductor, electronics, medical devices and industrial equipment manufacturing." Plant and manufacturing engineering teams run execution, traceability and quality on it. The AI today: a catalog of purpose-built AI agents that answer production questions and build dashboards and pages on the MES data model, plus MES and Analytics Copilots. Source: [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-expands-industrial-operations-platform-with-purpose-built-ai-agents/).

- Category: MES and operations management
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Named agent, Assistant, Production analytics and Visual inspection
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Part of ASMPT, a company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange (HKEX: 0522))

Sources: [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-expands-industrial-operations-platform-with-purpose-built-ai-agents/), [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/ai-agents-for-mes/), [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-to-demonstrate-mes-powered-industrial-operations-platform-for-ai-driven-manufacturing-at-hannover-messe-2026/), [criticalmanufacturing.com](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-acquires-convanit/) and [silicon-saxony.de](https://silicon-saxony.de/en/critical-manufacturing-what-it-takes-to-implement-ai-in-manufacturing/).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Version 12.0 adds a catalog of purpose-built AI agents

Launch, Oct. 20, 2026. The Industrial Operations Platform version 12.0 introduces AI agents that answer questions and build dashboards and user interface pages on the platform's Canonical Data Model, and customers can add their own agents.

Source: [Vendor release](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-expands-industrial-operations-platform-with-purpose-built-ai-agents/). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-critical-manufacturing-mes).

### AI Copilots shown inside the MES at Hannover Messe

Launch, March 19, 2026. Critical Manufacturing said visitors would see AI Copilots within the MES that answer questions about manufacturing data in natural language and generate charts, dashboards and insights.

Source: [Vendor release](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-to-demonstrate-mes-powered-industrial-operations-platform-for-ai-driven-manufacturing-at-hannover-messe-2026/). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-critical-manufacturing-mes).

### Critical Manufacturing acquires Convanit for AI image analysis

Acquisition, July 29, 2025. Critical Manufacturing bought Convanit, an AI specialist in image-based analytics for high-tech manufacturing. Its c-Alice engine lets manufacturers build and deploy custom visual inspection AI models without data science skills.

Source: [Vendor release](https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/press-releases/critical-manufacturing-acquires-convanit/). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-critical-manufacturing-mes).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology