Cake selects MTEK’s no-code and cloud-based Manufacturing Execution System MBrain to scale their operations
MTEK Industry AB proudly announces that Cake has selected their powerful Manufacturing Execution Software platform MBrain to digitize Cake’s factory floors across their new factories in Sweden, Taiwan and USA.
Cake, a fast-growing manufacturer of electric motorcycles with significant sustainability focus, has selected MTEK’s No-Code Manufacturing Execution Platform MBrain to digitize its global manufacturing operations.
During the autumn 2021 Cake raised 60 MUSD to scale globally. With that background, Cake conducted a search for a cloud-based manufacturing system (MES/MOM) and has now selected MTEK MBrain®. The system will support high-flexibility manufacturing as well as rigorous variant and quality control. Furthermore, it will speed up onboarding of new operators and allow for frequent updates to product and process design, which will help Cake to meet different demands on the global market. The agreement includes all three sites globally and will provide Cake with multisite follow-up. It will also provide a future-proof platform regardless how Cake chooses to expand or automate their process in the future.
“We had started to investigate a few different systems and found that MBrain is the system to help us scale our operations while improving quality and control. We like the fact that MBrain is very flexible and adaptable. We also like the fact that MBrain has been developed by a team of senior production engineering experts that truly understand production needs.” Says Per Werin, COO and responsible for the manufacturing at Cake.
MTEK is a software company based in Alfta, in the heart of Hälsingland in Sweden. It launched its software platform MBrain 2020. MTEK has successfully won market share not least with in the fast-growing electrification segment. MTEK’s CEO and founder, Mattias Andersson, has spent his life on the manufacturing floor worldwide and has lived the challenges that multisite global manufacturers have, and that is the core of MBrains value proposition.
“We’re honored to help support Cake in manufacturing the clean transportation of the future. Cake’s selected MBrain as the software to support their rapidly growing manufacturing demands. With MBrain, they’re able to scale their production using Industry 5.0 – leveraging their data to support their people and processes. They’re able to keep their production in line with their mission, tracking their products from cradle to grave ensuring their manufacturing is as sustainable as their product.” - Mattias Andersson, CEO, MTEK
About Cake
CAKE is a Swedish company with a clear mission to inspire towards a zero-emission society, by combining excitement and responsibility in its development of light, quiet, and clean high-performance electric off-road motorcycles. Its first model, the Kalk, debuted at Denver’s OR and Munich’s ISPO shows in January 2018 and has received numerous accolades, including the 2019 and 2020 Red Dot Design Award, IF Design Award, Automotive Brand Contest Award, and “Best in Show” designation by several outdoor industry publications. In 2019, CAKE launched the Kalk&, a street-legal motorcycle as well as Ösa+ and Ösa Lite, a utility platform with an integrated power station and off-road capabilities, which extended their award-winning streak. Kalk INK debuted in March 2020, with the street-legal Kalk INK SL entering the line in April 2020. And CAKE expanded into the race scene in November 2020, launching the Kalk OR Race and Kalk INK Race. In September 2021, CAKE released a convenient and light city moped, the Makka, expanding the user matrix further.
About MTEK
MTEK provides likely the world’s only modular, no-code, manufacturing execution platfrom. A company with its roots in the manufacturing industry, MTEK believes in simplifying manufacturing – to improve operational and financial performance. They do this by providing digital building blocks liberating the value of data locked up and hidden in production machines and processes and making it accessible to the human beings in the operations.
MBrain is a cloud- or hybrid, single or multi-site, no-code manufacturing execution platform empowered with improvement tools. It is designed to support the people and processes of manufacturing companies. MBrain is built by humans – for humans. It connects to production machines and processes throughout the product life cycle, from design to end of life, and helps manufacturers achieve the most out of production by finding and eliminating waste.
MTEK believes in simplifying manufacturing – to improve factory and financial performance and does this by providing digital building blocks liberating the value of data locked up and hidden in production machines and processes. At MTEK, we help our customers Make Things Better