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Novastar’s booth at the Cobo Center for The Big M Conference 2015. HP representative Niel Riley demonstrates the HP Sprout All-in-one to a group of college students.

Novastar Solutions exhibited at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME) Big M Convergence in Detroit’s Cobo Center the first week of June. The conference showcases manufacturing technologies and processes in the Great Lakes region. This geographical area represents the world’s fourth largest economy, with a combined $4.7 trillion GDP. Interesting technologies such as various additive manufacturing processes were demonstrated in various booths.

Showcasing Innovations in Manufacturing Technology

Novastar’s guest, HP Great Lakes Region workstation specialist Neil Riley (pictured above), demonstrated  HP’s Sprout all-in-one dual touchscreen computer/scanner/projector.   The Sprout has a future in 3D product design when integrated with Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) software.

Also featured was the HP Z34c 34-inch Ultra Wide Curved Display.  Its profile eliminates the need for a multi-monitor array in favor of a streamlined single piece silhouette – coveted by booth visitors. Novastar also displayed the flagship of the HP workstation line, the Z840. Upgradeable to 36 Xeon cores, 2 TB of memory, and 10 internal drive bays, the Z840 can be configured for maximum processing capacity in the CAD/CAE workspace.

Creating a Better Environment for Designers with Tailored Workstation and Software Solutions

Novastar Solutions offers manufacturers engineering design solutions combining HP Z workstations and Dassault Systeme’s  CATIA (CAD) and SIMULIA (CAE) or Siemens PLM NX CAD/CAE. This allows the value added benefit of having necessary design software pre-installed out of the box.

Manufacturers utilizing CAD/CAE ultimately create prototypes of their designed components. Prototypes are then tested in various conditions under a variety of stresses. Novastar Solutions offers manufacturers calibration services to keep the instruments used in prototype testing measuring accurately. Guy Howe, head of calibration at Novastar Solutions, demonstrated the customer portal at the booth. This web-based interface allows users to track and submit requests to calibrate their instruments, streamlining the process involved in calibration.

Several groups of high school and college students, the future of manufacturing employees, roamed the exhibit hall at the Big M conference. Novastar welcomed students into their booth and spent time explaining the IT Solutions and Calibration Services it offers to help manufacturers design and test new products.

Come Join us at the SAE Noise and Vibration Conference & Exhibition

Come see Novastar Solutions in booth # 410 at the SAE Noise & Vibration Exhibition at the  DeVos Place 303 Monroe NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, June 22-24 – the premier technical event for mobility noise, vibration and harshness testing.

Register for a free expo pass here.

SAE 2015 Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition

Novastar Calibration’s A2LA accredited Calibration Services business will be exhibiting at the Automotive Testing Expo 2014 October 28, 29 and 30th at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan Booth # 9049.
Known as America’s only automotive test, evaluation and quality engineering trade show, the Expo features 320 of the world’s leading automotive test equipment manufacturers and test service providers displaying the latest technologies.  Along with its calibration services, Novastar will feature HP engineering workstations and Dassault SIMULIA simulation software as well as Microtech Gefell acoustic test microphones.

Novastar is now a CISCO channel partner.  CISCO designs, manufacture, and sells Internet Protocol (IP) based networking and other products related to the communications and IT industry. CISCO offers a broad line of products designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate by transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world.  These include routers and switches, security and surveillance, voice and conferencing, wireless and
network storage systems.   For more information see: http://www.cisco.com/.

Novastar Solutions has joined Automation Alley – Michigan’s largest technology business association connecting government, business and education to drive the growth of the region’s economy.  Founded in 1999 Automation Alley’s nearly 1000 members hail from eight counties in southeast Michigan.  Automation Alley attracts members by offering opportunities to
grow businesses through networking, use of meeting space, access to top talent , assistance expanding  into overseas markets  and much more.  For more information visit Automationalley.com.

Novastar Solutions will exhibit at the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s inaugural event shaping the future of manufacturing in the Great Lakes Region: The BIG M Manufacturing Convergence June 10, 11 & 12 at Cobo Hall in Detroit.

Novastar supports hundreds of manufacturers in automotive and other industries with IT lifecycle management, hardware and software for engineering design and simulation, and calibration services for test instruments.

Visit us at Booth # 602 where we will be displaying the best-in-class Hewlett Packard engineering workstations and Dassault Systemes Simulia CAE FEA software.  Enter to win a new HP Zbook mobile engineering workstation.

Since 2011 Novastar has been a channel partner reselling Dassault’s computer aided engineering software SIMULIA – which utilizes finite element analysis to simulate products, packaging and processes.   In April 2014 Novastar signed an agreement to also resell CATIA  – Dassault’s computer aided design software.  Novastar is a high volume reseller of HP engineering workstations  – making CATIA a good fit to provide a robust  solution  to engineering designers.   Novastar  also provides  services to facilitate adding CATIA seats offering software loading, delivery out of box and reselling or disposing of retired hardware.

Novastar is the exclusive North American distributor of a complete line of Microtech Gefell measurement microphones for product and environmental noise measurement.   These include:
intensity probes, microphones for smart phones, microphone arrays, pass by, boundary layer
(wind turbines) plus accessories.

Founded in 1928 by Georg Neumann, Microtech Gefell microphones are widely known in the music and recording industry setting the bar for world class acoustic performance.   MTG brings the same precision and excellent design to measurement microphones used throughout the world in test and measurement environments.  For more information visit www.microtechgefell.de.