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,…

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…

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…

Trent XWB Engine Assembly Showcasing their engine assembly process, Rolls Royce plc have recently released this video showing one of the latest generation Trent XWB gas turbine engines being assembled. A large number of the engine assembly tools for these procedures were designed by Nova either using previous engine tools as typical examples or from…

Autodesk Inventor 2018 is released The Wait Is Over ! Autodesk Inventor 2018 is now available to download and having done so and undertaken a couple of software installations, here’s Nova’s first look at what’s new. Inventor 2018 is built for the continually evolving needs of the modern engineering design professional and this year, the…

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…

Nova are pleased to announce that following an internal promotion, our new Engineering Manager is Steve Holt. Working alongside Nick Parry (Engineering Director), Steve is now responsible for the day to day running of our internal design office allocating engineering design projects to the appropriate design engineer(s) and managing the design office resource loadings. Acting as…

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…

One of our Directors was visiting a new client this morning and came across this little gem in their reception area. The story goes that it’s the actual car driven by Rubens Barrichello in the 1997 Monaco F1 Grand Prix. Other than missing the engine / gearbox and brake calipers it’s virtually as it left…