Tufting machinery maker extending into MES and smart factory software
Cobble - Van de Wiele builds tufting machines and ancillary equipment from Blackburn, but its job posts point to a parallel software business: MES rollouts for plastics and textile customers, cloud platform integrations and dark-factory initiatives. The stack mixes legacy Windows tooling (WinForms, WCF, Delphi) with ASP.NET Core, Angular, MQTT and RabbitMQ, and test automation work in Playwright and Cypress signals a push to stabilize releases.
Cobble - Van de Wiele Limited is a privately held manufacturer of tufting machinery and related ancillary equipment, headquartered in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Founded in 2013, the company employs between 51 and 200 people. Alongside machine supply, it provides service and support to its customers and develops manufacturing execution software for plastics and textile producers. Hiring spans engineering, manufacturing, support and research, with roles open in Belgium and Malaysia.
Its stack includes .NET, C#, C++, ASP.NET Core, Angular, TypeScript, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Redis, MQTT, RabbitMQ, Azure DevOps, Creo and Embedded Linux, plus Playwright, Cypress and Selenium for testing.
Job posts describe MES rollouts for plastics and textile customers, smart integrations with its cloud platform, core module development, and autonomous production and dark-factory initiatives.
The Blackburn-headquartered company is currently hiring in Belgium and Malaysia, mostly mid-level roles across engineering, manufacturing and support.
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