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NOVA Are Recruiting!

With UK manufacturing ramping up, Nova Design are once again recruiting and have exciting opportunities available for a number of enthusiastic mechanical design engineers and detail CAD draughtspersons to join our internal design team. You will be based in our modern 40 seat design office in Kingswinford, West Midlands. Upcoming design projects include : Design…

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Nova Achieve Cyber Essentials Certification

Not a bad way to start a Monday morning Nova Design has achieved the requirements of the UK Government’s Cyber Essentials scheme and are now certified and on the Cyber Essentials register. The Cyber Essentials scheme has been developed by Government and industry to provide a clear statement of the basic controls all organisations should…

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Wednesday’s CAD Humour

It might only be CAD humour and a light hearted smile within the engineering design industry but we honestly think the closest some of our younger mechanical design engineers have come to a drawing board is by undertaking a Google image search …… The above is just an example of CAD humour, but nowadays, all…

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Nova retain ISO 9001:2015 Quality Assurance Certification

Tuesday 9th February 2021 saw Nova undertake the first recertification external BSI audit for our ISO 9001:2015 quality assurance standard under COVID-19 remote working conditions. We are very pleased to confirm that the recertification audit was successfully passed with flying colours and Nova Design remains certified to BSI standards with a ISO 9001:2005 scope of…

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Why Outsource Design Engineering Projects?

Have you ever considered using an outsource design engineering office ? Many engineering and manufacturing companies may not see or fully understand the benefits of using an external resource to outsource design engineering work to, or may not like to consider it as an option. There is often a fear of not having control over an…

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Happy 32nd Birthday Nova

Over 3 decades of providing mechanical engineering design services to UK industry 32 Years Old – Happy Birthday To Nova Albeit in the middle of a global pandemic with all of our design engineering staff working remotely, 1 August 2020 sees Nova Design Limited celebrating 32 years in the business of providing sub-contract mechanical engineering design…

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Happy Birthday To Nova Design – Nova Reaches 31 Years Old

Over 3 decades of providing sub-contract mechanical engineering design services to UK industry 31 Years Old – Happy Birthday To Us 1 August 2019 sees Nova Design celebrating 31 years in business, all this time providing subcontract mechanical design services to a variety of engineering industries across the West Midlands, the UK and into Europe.…

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A Brief History In Time – The History Of Computer Aided Design – CAD

Everything You Need To Know About Computer Aided Design (CAD) The phrase Computer Aided Design (CAD) means the use of computer software to facilitate the generation, modification, and optimisation of a part or a compilation of parts. Using software to facilitate part design allows for higher precision, simpler and more accurate design iterations, and comprehensive…

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Ever Considered Outsourcing Engineering Design Projects?

Have you ever considered using an outsource design engineering office ? Many engineering and manufacturing companies may not see or fully understand the benefits of using an external resource to outsource design engineering work to, or may not like to consider it as an option. There is often a fear of not having control over an…

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Rolls-Royce To Open New £250 Million Facility

Rolls-Royce to lead the regeneration of the surplus areas of its site at Ansty, near Coventry, proposing a 2m sq ft industrial scheme with a gross development value of in excess of £250m. The scheme is intended to complement and extend the success of Ansty Park by providing land and buildings for the manufacturing community.…

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Who makes a good Mechanical Design Engineer?

What makes a good Mechanical Design Engineer? As an outsource engineering design consultancy providing professional mechanical design services over the last 30 years or so, we have come to know the ins and outs of what makes a good, reliable mechanical design engineer. With the other main division of Nova acting as a recruitment agency,…

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Ansys DesignSpace V18.2 downloaded and installed

FEA – Ansys DesignSpace V18.2 Nova have recently upgraded our ANSYS finite element analysis (FEA) software package to ANSYS DesignSpace V18.2, the latest release of the engineering simulation technology suite, designed to optimise our client’s product development processes. This ensures our finite element analysis (FEA) and engineering design team keep the latest in engineering design tools…

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