CAYE Smart X Series Wins 2026 Fortune China Best Designs Award
The 2026 Fortune China Best Designs list has officially been unveiled. The CAYE Smart X Series commercial super-automatic coffee machine earned a coveted spot on this year's list, recognized for its breakthrough design across human-machine synergy, precision extraction control, and end-to-end commercial automation.
As one of the most influential global platforms for design and innovation, Fortune China Best Designs consistently focuses on "how design drives business transformation and technological deployment." In evaluating this year's honorees, Fortune editors highlighted that AI and intelligent technology are accelerating their integration into the physical world. Outstanding design must not only deliver seamless interaction, but also dive deep into operational details to take direct responsibility for real-world cup quality and commercial outcomes.
Redefining Super-Automatic Standards
In high-intensity commercial environments, maintaining long-term extraction stability remains the defining challenge for premium super-automatic coffee machines.
The CAYE Smart X Series fully automates the intricate, manual steps of a professional barista—grinding, weighing, distributing, tamping, and extracting—delivering precise end-to-end quality control from bean to cup.
Leveraging the synergistic advantages of China’s advanced intelligent manufacturing and supply chain, the Smart X Series demonstrates robust product competitiveness, offering commercial clients worldwide a more efficient, reliable, and innovative super-automatic solution.
Empowering Commercial Scenarios and User Experience
When intelligent technology penetrates the core of operations, hardware evolves from a cold production tool into a trusted, dependable partner behind the bar.
The design language and interaction logic of the Smart X Series are built around real-world commercial scenarios. By transforming flavor calibration—traditionally heavily reliant on individual barista experience—into a digitally replicable closed-loop system, it significantly reduces store training and operational overhead. Crucially, it frees baristas from repetitive manual labor, allowing them to dedicate more energy to customer engagement and beverage creativity.
This design philosophy aligns directly with the core value championed by this year’s Fortune Design list: "making technology serve people while remaining accountable for real output and commercial success."
Engineering Intelligent Equipment That Truly Understands Coffee
A rigorous engineering ethos coupled with an uncompromising pursuit of cup quality are key to why the CAYE Smart X Series stands out.
Making the 2026 Fortune China Best Designs list represents authoritative recognition of CAYE Technology’s product design capabilities and technical innovation. It also showcases the solid strength of China's high-end intelligent manufacturing entering global markets.
Guided by our mission to "create better coffee moments through technology, making healthy and safe coffee accessible to everyone," CAYE will continue to pioneer the super-automatic equipment sector. We remain dedicated to iterating and advancing next-generation super-automatic coffee machines, bringing consistently exceptional coffee to more scenarios worldwide through continuous product and technology innovation.
