Creo Customer: Grimme Potato Harvesters Feed Real World

By Geoff Hedges | Published: August 31, 2011 

 

I’ve been browsing the web site of Creo customer, Grimme. It turns out, growing potatoes is somewhat more complicated than Farmville has led us to believe. You can’t just press the “rake” icon, dump a burlap bag of seed on your field, and expect your potatoes to be ready a day later.

You have to wait, and there are a lot more variables. Grimme makes harvesting machinery for real potato farmers including planters, separaters, cultivaters, hoppers, conveyers, loaders, even box fillers. It further customizes equipment for each customer depending on climate, weather, and consistency of the soil.  

If all that big machinery seems like overkill just to grow cheap starchy tubers, consider this: the average global citizen eats 70 pounds of potatoes every year.  Multiply that by  7 billion people, and … that’s the “ville” Grimme farmers are playing in.

Creo’s direct modeling approach is part of that story too. Grimme says Creo has unlocked value for the company by cutting development time in half for its equipment. Together, they help agribusinesses produce the potatoes that feed the real world. Look for Grimme and Creo in this episode of The Product Design Show.