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Franke distinguishes itself from other companies in its engineering work above all through the use of an end-to-end digital process chain, Digital Prototyping. Franke is known worldwide for its kitchen and coffee systems and supplies customers including McDonald’s, Burger King and IKEA. For the exceptional design of its products, Franke’s developers use Autodesk AliasStudio. This model is then generated as a digital prototype in Autodesk Inventor.
“Autodesk Inventor has helped us enormously to shorten development times for new products. With Digital Prototyping, we can examine and test these products completely before they are even built. This saves us a great deal of time,” explained Christian Sperka, executive of the Franke Group.
“By being less dependent on real prototypes, Autodesk Inventor helps the company succeed in the constantly changing global market,” Robert “Buzz” Kross, Senior Vice President of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions, is convinced.
