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Why 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…

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Happy Retirement Dave ‘Wainwright’ Stanford

Lovely surprise this morning on everyones desks. Dave Stanford, one of our design engineers affectionately known as Wainwright is retiring today and has bought everyone a ‘pie and a pint’ to celebrate with him later. Thanks Dave and have a great retirement from all at Nova.

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Let Nova produce your technical documents / manuals

A spotlight view of one of Nova’s additional services, our internal team can produce your technical manuals / documentation in either print or video formats. Nova have experience in the production of technical documentation, including operator / operation manuals, maintenance and instruction manuals and the collation of documentation for the CE marking of products. Our experienced…

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ERDF Award – Nova awarded investment grant

Nova Design have recently been awarded an investment grant of approximately £17,000 via the Business Improvement Programme (www.birmingham.gov.uk/bip), working with both Birmingham City Council (www.birmingham.gov.uk) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The grant has been utilised as part of Nova’s on-going project commitment and financial investment into additional CAD workstations and virtual simulation software.…

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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 focusing on engineering design recruitment. Under the guidance of Daniel Tipper (Recruitment Executive), the previous experience and success of our internal recruitment team in other recruitment disciplines has allowed us to branch out and increase…

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ISO 9001:2008 – Nova pass audit with flying colours

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 last of year 2014 external client Quality Audits with flying colours – NO non-conformances 🙂 Said a delighted Simon Parry (Nova’s Business Development…

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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…

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The 3D Animation That Started Our Visualisation Division

This was the 3D Visualisation video that was the catalyst to Nova’s 3D Animation / Visualisation Division. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLXnrbk6ZlY The video was passed to Nova’s Business Development Director by one of our CAD Resellers and after showing a few of Nova’s clients what can be achieved, Nova invested in 3D Studio Max (as was) and the…

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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.

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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 In The Midlands’ business network. With the Midlands being the birthplace of the industrial revolution and leading pioneers in advanced manufacturing, the central belt of the UK is home to around 32,000 engineering and manufacturing…

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Jaguar reveal the ‘XE’ model at Geneva Motorshow

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) have today released images of their new XE model at the Geneva motorshow. It’s great news for the UK Automotive industry and one of the models that Nova’s design engineers have been working on tooling projects for. The new model (internally codenamed X760) is designed with an aluminium body and will…

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Nova retain ISO Accreditation !

Following our annual audit, Nova have successfully retained their ISO9001 Accreditation for another 12 months. Certified for “The Provision of Engineering Design Services” Said a delighted Simon Parry (Nova’s Director of Business Development) “At Nova Design, we have always been proud of the service we offer our clients. Now with the retention of our award,…

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