Key TWI staff involved with the automotive industry
For all enquiries about Automotive, please contact the Automotive team (automotive@twi.co.uk).
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Chris Otter can help with any issues concerned with your Membership package and can help you access the services and benefits to which you are entitled. Chris joined TWI in 1983 initially working in materials testing followed by a period in high power laser processes. After 10 years as a technician Chris became a project leader and graduated in 2000 with a BEng (Hons) in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. As Senior Project Leader in the Microtechnology Section, his responsibilities included proposing, leading and delivering focused projects for TWI members in the areas of laser, resistance and ultrasonic welding, and wire bonding for microelectronics for a diverse range of applications including welding for automotive electronics, implantable medical devices, miniature displays and experimental laser processes. Chris has recently joined the Membership Development group with responsibility for Electronics, Medical and Sensors and Automotive. |
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John Davenport is the first point of call for you to discuss any issues relating to your interface with TWI e.g. JIPs, enquiries, information, problems or concerns as well as placing a work project. He will be
able to call up a team of specialists to put together a plan to fulfil your needs. John joined TWI as Programme Manager in 2001, covering business development in a range of industries including rail, marine, off-highway, construction, and military vehicles and equipment. |
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Paul Burling is the Principal Engineer Composite Materials Qualifications: HNC ONC in mechanical and production engineering Career Summary: Paul has extensive experience in research and development and project management of large commercial projects world-wide, which include in-depth knowledge of composite materials for Military, Medical, Construction and Aerospace applications. This required comprehensive customer support throughout the life cycle of the projects. Skills include MRPII for forecasting, planning, purchasing and manufacturing - with the ability to be able to implement cost reduction programmes, tender review, contract reviews. Many of these projects are single client projects and collaborative projects funded by either the DTI or Europe (CRAFT). Key Industrial Projects
Technical expertise includes: research and development, design, fabrication joining and costing composite materials using novel production techniques in producing carbon laminate for the manufacturing industry. |
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David Calder works for the Business Process Support Section, part of TWI's Manufacturing Support Group. He has experience of lean manufacturing systems and of New Product Introduction (NPI) processes. David is conversant with many of the tools in the automotive manufacturing professional's tool box such as Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Design of Experiments, Ford 8D problem solving and Statistical Process Control. He is also familiar with project management techniques and has spent several years working in a range production environments. |
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Tim Mitchell joined TWI as a project leader in the Electron Beam Department in 2001 after finishing his PhD at the University of Surrey. He has been involved in a wide variety of projects in the EB department involving: EB welding of crack sensitive alloys, deflection techniques for improved weld quality, and EB hardening. |
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Dave Harvey joined TWI in 1986 with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering, working initially on projects related to process control in gas shielded arc welding. He has subsequently been closely involved with the development of TWI's thermal spray and cold spray coating facilities. He was Chairman of the UK Surface Engineering Society from 1994-97 and is an active member of the Thermal Spraying & Surface Engineering Association (TSSEA). He has been actively involved in the development of Pb-free coatings for automotive applications such as connecting rod big end bearings and the development of metal-coated composites for motorsport component thermal management. His current responsibilities for TWI are in project support and business development for TWI's joining process groups. |
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Alan Day joined TWI in 1991 after 17 years in the steel industry developing NDT systems for tube testing. Experience includes: - GSP on Bolt inspection - CRP work on tube weld inspection - high temperature ultrasonic inspection and magnetostriction - Inspection of rail components. |
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Museok Kwak joined TWI in October 2007 in the AMP Group (Polymers section) and since then have been working on dissimilar materials joining (i.e. composite to non-composite), resistance welding of thermoplastic composites and various other NCN projects, which mainly involve doing technical audits and feasibility studies. |
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Philippe Bastid joined TWI in November 2001. His main projects are related to modelling joining processes by Finite Element Analysis in order to predict heat transfer, residual stresses, stress relaxation during
post-weld heat treatmentand modelling the non-linear behaviour of materials from mechanistic microstructural models. The models developed can be applied for prediction of elastic, plastic, creep, damage or fracture behaviour. Philippe has worked on a wide range of materials (ferrous and non-ferrous metals, intermetallics, composites, ceramics) for various applications (automotive industry, steel industry, aeronautics, power generation). |
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Aurelie Brun joined TWI in October 2006 as a Project Leader in Microtechnology, working on laser processes. Prior to joining spent 9 months as a student placement in Microtechnology working on laser welding and soldering and on percussive arc welding. |
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