customer spotlight MV A G U S T A MOTORCYCLE MAKER MV AGUSTA SPELLS SUCCESS WITH A CAPITAL 'E' Photographs courtesy of MV Agusta dptechnology.com 1 customer MV AGUSTA IS WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL AN spotlight “EXCLUSIVE” BRAND — a motorcycle, sure, but also a mythical creature that’s captured 75 world titles thanks to a production process able to win the hearts of critics. And if an Agusta bike could speak, “Eat your heart out” is what it would say — in Italian, of course. Coveted for seductive styling, the MV Agusta F4 and Brutale motorbikes are MV A G U S T A armed with refined four-cylinder inline engines and unique arrangements of radial valves — a feature that makes Andrea Corti (center), sales representative for DP Italy, is the innards of the already outwardly flanked by Designer Davide Gerosa (left) and Engineer Umberto sexy machines a feat of the imagination Ottone, both of MV Agusta’s research and development team. in the world of motorcycles. In the summer of 2008, Harley Davidson took charge of the MV Agusta group, which model. The STL representation of the stock is then imported includes the Cagiva brand, thereby expanding its European into ESPRIT, where appropriate toolpath is placed on the presence. The company runs two production facilities near model and accurate NC code is generated. the northern Italian city of Varese, as well as a styling center (or CRC) in the Republic of San Marino. With the integrated realistic simulation in ESPRIT, the designers can streamline workflow by previewing the Between the walls of Agusta’s design department, technical machine-tool movements, including the rest material and excellence meets an innate passion for creating new finishing grade. motorbike racing concepts. Schiranna, a commune in the province of Varese, is the designing, building and testing In the prototyping department, operators machine the parts ground for all new engines — though bringing a new masterpiece to the table is no overnight job. Three years is “We need a versatile CAM to face the the average “cook time” before a fresh concept hits the production stage. wide variety of parts to be machined” Once the design of new parts is complete within the Catia V5 CAD system, designers use and program auxiliary moves and voilà: After a couple of ESPRIT® by DP Technology to generate the toolpath needed adjustments, the prototype is ready to be assembled. After to machine the prototype. the designers and testers assure that the new engines are road-worthy in MV Agusta style, the sky — and the capacity “We need a versatile CAM to face the wide variety of parts of the gas tank — is the limit. g to be machined,” agree Agusta designers Davide Gerosa and Umberto Ottone, who say that ESPRIT’s ease-of-use and rapid toolpath generation makes it ideal. The pair usually ON THE WEB: begin their process with a semi-manufactured turning rough www.mvagusta.it DP Technology Corp. Phone: 1 800 627-8479 1150 Avenida Acaso Outside the US: + 1 805 388-6000 Camarillo, CA 93012 USA Email: [email protected] ESPRIT is a registered trademark of DP Technology Corp. ©2009 DP Technology Corp. All rights reserved. dptechnology.com 2.