One of our latest mechanical design projects hits the shop floor into manufacture. Nova produced mechanical designs and detailed manufacture drawings for the mechanical automation of the animated cheeseburger prop, soon to be bound for a theme park in Dubai. All mechanical items were designed and detailed using Autodesk Inventor software, with the FEA requirements…

Over the last 27 years of trading, Nova have successfully undertaken the site survey, layout, structural design and structural detailing for many structural steelwork design projects. Previous engineering design projects have included staircases, platform design and detailing through to access ways and bridge detailing for road and rail access. To aid in the 3D design…

FEA – Ansys DesignSpace V17.0 Nova have recently upgraded our ANSYS Finite Element Analysis software package to ANSYS V17.0, the latest release of the engineering simulation technology suite, designed to optimise product development processes. This ensures our FEA and engineering design team keep the latest tools at their disposal, in order to provide a reliable, high…

Older CAD Software One of our design engineers was having a clear out of his garage at the weekend and came across a box of older draughting equipment – mechanical propelling pencils, scale rules etc In an old, battered A4 envelope were these . . . . . . Not only was Pafec Dogs one of…

We came across these “Did You Know” trivia facts in the local paper and thought we’d share : Kingswinford is mentioned in the Doomsday book In Roman times and for centuries afterwards Kingswinford was a dense primeval forest. Records show that in 1920 coal was being mined in the area and in the 1600’s ironstone…

Now the new car is in the public domain, here at Nova, we are very proud to announce that we have been a part of this (and other) upcoming new models from Jaguar Land Rover. Nova have successfully been involved with the production of 3D models, 2D manufacture drawings, robot studies, off line robot programming,…

As engineering design and recruitment consultants Nova Design are delighted to announce that we have expanded our internal visualisation department in our West Midlands based office, and will now be offering increased capacity for our visualisation and animation service. Visualisation is a modern tool used to bring a concept to life, through the use of…

We have recently upgraded our ANSYS FEA software package to ANSYS 16.0, the latest release of the engineering simulation technology suite, designed to optimise product development processes. This ensures our FEA and engineering design team keep the latest tools at their disposal, in order to provide a reliable, high quality service. Built on a platform…

Nova have once again proved that our internal ISO Mission Statement of “Right First Time” is worthy of the way in which we conduct our design services. We have successfully passed the first external audit of 2015 with flying colours – NO non-conformances 🙂 Said a delighted Simon Parry (Nova’s Business Development Director) “At Nova…

The Benefits of Outsourcing Engineering Design Projects Many engineering companies may not see or fully understand the benefits of outsourcing their design work, or may not like to consider it as an option. There is often fear of not having control over a project once it has been outsourced, but with a company such as…