KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan & OPORTO, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Critical Manufacturing, an enterprise which creates leading edge software solutions for the high-tech manufacturing industries of solar, electronics and semiconductors, and Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE), one of the world's leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies, signed a license agreement, for replacing the existing Manufacturing Execution System at OSE’s Kaohsiung plant by cmNAVIGO.

“We have selected Critical Manufacturing’s cmNAVIGO, as it perfectly supports our migration needs from an architecture, system-transformation and functionality perspectives,” said Daniel Wang, CIO of OSE. “We selected cmNAVIGO because it clearly has the customer needs in mind, being a highly flexible and customizable solution which also has a full suite of functions for semiconductor backend, such as SPC and Manufacturing Intelligence.”

“The migration of legacy MES is becoming critically important to semiconductor manufacturers,” explained Reiner Missale, Critical Manufacturing’s CEO. “Legacy MES systems are becoming less supportable, while at the same time, demands are accumulating to respond to increased productivity requirements, logistics integration and end-customer demands. The migration of traditional and homegrown MES to a new generation provides the opportunity to close this accumulating efficiency gap. Due to its state-of-the-art technology and architecture, cmNAVIGO’s adoption makes the migration of semiconductor factories realistic and commercially viable.”

cmNAVIGO is a Next Generation Software for Manufacturing Operations Management, adding unique value to manufacturing business, with:

• Advanced Modeling for Semiconductor, Solar and Electronics.
• Compelling User experience, through a unique MS Silverlight based GUI
• Unprecedented Production Line visibility, with full online traceability over all complex operations and integrated analytics.
• Powerful object, interface and workflow extensibility
• Seamless integration with other enterprise or manufacturing applications
• Flexible multi-site integration and migration capabilities

About Critical Manufacturing

Critical Manufacturing creates leading edge software solutions for the advanced manufacturing industries of solar, electronics and semiconductors. Critical Manufacturing’s headquarter and main technical centre in Portugal and additional facilities in Germany and China.

For more information, visit www.criticalmanufacturing.com

About OSE

OSE is one of the world's fastest-growing electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers. It is one of the few world's leading EMS providers specialized in high-mix manufacturing. OSE offers electronics manufacturing services in US, Taiwan and China. OSE is a leading IC packaging and testing services provider and a leading Flash Memory Card Manufacturer.

For more information, visit www.ose.com.tw