Digital Design Reviews
Due to the size and duration of the projects that we undertake in our engineering design office, design reviews are an increasingly important part of our mechanical engineering design process. Conducted either digitally or face to face, they allow us to provide our clients with regular updates before and throughout each design stage. Catering to a…
Read MoreLatest Mechanical Automation Project Is Unwrapped . . . . .
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…
Read MoreNova add Advance Steel to CAD software capabilities
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…
Read MoreNova Appoint Engineering Manager
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…
Read MoreAnsys 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…
Read MoreNova retain ISO 9001:2008 Certification
Nova have once again proved that our internal ISO 9001:2008 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 ISO 9001:2008 audit of 2016 with flying colours – NO non-conformances 🙂 Said a delighted Simon Parry (Nova’s Business Development…
Read MoreNova 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…
Read MoreCoolest Thing In Company Reception
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…
Read MoreKingswinford – 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…
Read MoreNova celebrate 10 years in current offices :-)
This week sees the 10th anniversary of Nova moving into the Innovation Centre on Pensnett Trading Estate. Previously Nova were situated in Pensnett House, around 500 metres from our current location, Nova took the decision to relocate giving us both more room to expand our design facilities together with additional parking space for all of…
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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…
Read MoreJaguar 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,…
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