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September 18, 2019 | Critical ManufacturingEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Critical Manufacturing, an ASM PT company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dave Trail to VP of the electronics segment. His prior experience in software, capital equipment, components and value-added services have contributed to Trail’s long track record of successful sales growth and customer satisfaction.
Trail is an accomplished industry professional with more than 25 years of experience in electronics manufacturing equipment, processes and manufacturing executions systems (MES) software. Throughout his career, he has been a pioneer and proponent of the evolution of manufacturing from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0, Big Data Analytics, and the Industrial Internet of Things.
While working with most of the largest global manufacturing corporations, Trail possesses vast knowledge of the challenges that companies face and the opportunities inherent in evolving their organizations to capitalize on tomorrow’s technologies.
Critical Manufacturing Augmented MES helps Electronics Assembly manufacturers constantly upgrade process capability and manage capacity and quality, while driving down cost.
About Critical Manufacturing
Critical Manufacturing provides the most modern, flexible and configurable manufacturing execution system (MES) available. Critical Manufacturing MES helps manufacturers stay ahead of stringent product traceability and compliance requirements; reduce risk with inherent closed-loop quality; integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems and factory automation, and provide deep intelligence and visibility of global production operations.
As a result, customers are Industry 4.0 ready. They can compete effectively and profitably by easily adapting their operations to changes in demand, opportunity or requirements, anywhere, at any time. For more information, visit www.criticalmanufacturing.com.
About ASM Pacific Technology Limited
As a global technology and market leader, ASMPT (HKEX stock code: 0522), develops and provides leading edge solutions and materials for the semiconductor assembly and packaging industries. Its surface mount technology solutions are deployed in a wide range of end-user markets including electronics, mobile communications, automotive, industrial, LED and alternative energy. Our continuous investments in research and development help to provide our customers with innovative and cost-efficient solutions and systems that enable them to achieve higher productivity, greater reliability and enhanced quality.
Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 1989, ASMPT is currently one of the constituent stocks on the Hang Seng Composite MidCap Index under the Hang Seng Composite Size Indexes, the Hang Seng Composite Information Technology Industry Index under Hang Seng Composite Industry Indexes, the Hang Seng Hong Kong 35 Index and the Hang Seng Global Composite Index. To learn more about ASMPT, please visit our website at www.asmpacific.com.
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