Third generation Swiss-based Max Riner designs and manufactures chocolate molds for all of the world's major industrial chocolate-makers.

“Every mold is tailor-made to customer specifications,” says Urs Truttmann, engineering manager. “We are involved from the early stages of chocolate development and bring our mold design experience to the table to create a chocolate mold that will produce an aesthetically appealing chocolate. If the mold is not correctly designed, the demolding process can be very tricky, and may even damage the chocolate.”

With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its Single Source for Speed industry solution experience, including CATIA for design and ENOVIA for collaboration and data management, Max Riner has reduced engineering time by 50%.

“In general, tasks that would normally take half a day, now only take half an hour,” Truttmann said. 

“This leaves more time for other activities and, of course, more time for innovation.” 

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