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This month's posterboy for Autodesk is Swiss manufacturer Franke, just named Autodesk Inventor of the Month. (The news is new, so the Autodesk site's not yet been updated.) Kitchen-, Food-Service- and Washroom-systems designer Franke runs a truly global operation, of the sort that probably leaves globalists salivating: with branches in North & South America, Africa, Asia and Europe, Franke uses Alias Studio and Inventor software to let designers in one region communicate with manufacturers in another. With this system they are able to design everything including the veritable kitchen sink, their specialty.