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Why Should You Outsource Your Design Engineering?

The Benefits of Outsourcing Engineering Design Projects Many engineering companies may not see or fully understand the benefits of outsourcing...

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Our expertise as a CAD Agency

Historically a CAD design office undertaking innovative engineering design projects from within our Kingswinford design office, we are now also...

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Nova join Made In The Midlands

Gaining additional exposure for Nova and pushing the UK Centre of Excellence for Engineering, Nova have recently joined the ‘Made...

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JLR / i54 engine Plant starting to take shape.

Yet more great news for UK Manufacturing - it's not all doom and gloom in the West Midlands ! http://www.expressandstar.com/editors-picks/2013/08/30/new-wolverhampton-plant-on-track-to-drive-jlr-forward/

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ANSYS 14.5 downloaded and installed

We have recently upgraded our ANSYS software package to ANSYS 14.5, the newest release of the engineering simulation technology suite,...

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SolidWorks 2013 will not install on Windows XP

If you are currently using SolidWorks software as your designated design package, and are looking to upgrade to SolidWorks 2013,...

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Render farm now built and installed!

To assist our visualisation team, we have recently built an in-house render farm. This allows high quality, high-resolution illustrations, animations...

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Now using CATIA V5!

We have added CATIA V5 to the design packages we are currently using in house! We also use Autodesk Inventor,...

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AutoCAD 2013 Service Pack 1.1

Service Pack 1.1 has now been released for AutoCAD 2013 software. This latest Service Pack follows on from the withdrawal of...

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Solid Edge ST5 installed!

We are now using the very latest Solid Edge release from Siemens – ST5. Including over 1300 enhancements, this new...

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Ansys 17.0 FEA Software Downloaded and Installed

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…

Nova unearth older CAD treasure

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…

Kingswinford – Did You Know – Trivia :-)

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…

Nova Download Autodesk Inventor 2016

We have this week downloaded the latest 3D modelling suite from Autodesk – Autodesk Inventor Suite 2016 Premium. The following is an excerpt from the official Autodesk site giving an overview of the softwares capabilities and upgrades. Inventor 2016 enables you to break through boundaries typically associated with 3D modeling, delivering an invaluable connected design…

Jaguar XE Starts Production in Solihull

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,…

Nova expand Visualisation Division Capacity

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…

ANSYS 16.0 Downloaded And Installed

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 retain ISO 9001 Accreditation ! :-)

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…

Why Should You Outsource Your Design Engineering?

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…

Our expertise as a CAD Agency

Historically a CAD design office undertaking innovative engineering design projects from within our Kingswinford design office, we are now also focusing on engineering design recruitment. The recent growth and addition of staff to our department means we have the resources to offer this solution in addition to our already well established internal engineering design CAD…

High Precision Engineering – A Masterpiece

We came across this video on YouTube over the weekend – showing off high precision engineering to create a masterpiece. It’s not an industry Nova have any experience of, we just thought it was a great video 🙂 A couple of other websites mention that there are only 7 handmade examples worldwide and they went…

Hip Replacement Using 3D Printing Technology

Using the latest in 3D printing technology has enabled a patient involved in a traffic accident in the late 1970’s to have a hip replacement operation with a bone graft and 3D printed titanium hip at Southampton General Hospital with collaboration from Southampton University. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wN6ckFSAtao For further information, click here to read full detail on The Engineer website.