Act of faith yields ROI - Process design time reduced from 40 hours to four with product solution for midmarket

摘要

A longtime user of Autodesk's AutoCAD 2D drafting software, York International's North American Refrigeration Division found itself in a situation familiar to many midsize manufacturers. In the summer of 2004 - four years after upgrading to Autodesk's 3D collaborative design tool, Inventor - the York, Pa.-based company recognized that its growing wealth of digital design data - 35 gigabytes of AutoCAD documents, plus 100 gigabytes of Inventor data - posed both a problem and an opportunity.