Mantsu wants to strengthen the competitiveness of the European manufacturing industry with a composable MES.

Ghent, 18 June 2026. Belgium and Europe hold a wealth of manufacturing know-how. Yet more and more manufacturing companies are leaving Europe. Technology company Mayker wants to make European manufacturers digitally stronger with the launch of Mantsu, a composable MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that helps manufacturers digitalize faster and produce more efficiently.

For Mayker, the launch is more than a product introduction. With Mantsu, the company wants to contribute to the competitiveness of European manufacturing.

"In many manufacturing companies, the head office is already well digitalized, but it never reaches the shop floor. And that's exactly where the biggest gains are. With Mantsu, we bring digitalization all the way to the factory floor, so factories here can produce more efficiently and stay competitive," says Bart Claeys, co-founder of Mantsu.

Mantsu didn't come off a drawing board. For years, Mayker built MES applications on the floor at manufacturers like PSS, Joris Ide, Etex, Verduyn and Oleon. Those insights from real projects are now brought together in one product. Manufacturers don't start from a blank page, but from a proven foundation that is faster and more predictable than building from scratch, and still able to shape itself to how their factory actually works.

“In the past fifteen years that I’ve been involved in digitalizing production processes, I see time and again how much efficiency is lost daily without anyone noticing,” says Dider Kerckhof, co-founder of Mantsu. "A factory starts a major digital program, and eighteen months later, production revolves around the software instead of the other way around. With Mantsu, we prove that things can be done differently. You start where the pain is greatest, something is running on the shop floor within weeks, and from then on, you manage based on data rather than gut feeling."

At Premium Sound Solutions (PSS), a manufacturer of automotive speakers, this approach has already been put into practice.

"For a long time, we managed our production using whiteboards and paper, without real-time visibility. With a composable MES, we now determine our own pace: we adapt to what the shop floor needs, without waiting for a vendor's roadmap," says Stijn Van Uytfanghe, Global Digital Transformation Program Manager at PSS."