Huw Williams PhD CMath FIMA

Huw Williams has over 20 years experience in the automotive industry; he graduated from the University of  Oxford in 1978 with a mathematics degree and went on to take a PhD in theoretical mechanics at the University of East Anglia.  His early career comprised research work on the mechanical properties of ice for the US Army followed by a spell as a mathematics lecturer at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University where he researched in theoretical mechanics.  Huw joined Jaguar Cars in 1986 where he worked in research and development applying mathematical modelling techniques to all aspects of vehicle technology.  He also developed statistical skills through TQM in the 1980's culminating in his accreditation as Ford's top-scoring Master Black Belt in 2005.

During Huw's latter years as a Technical Leader at Jaguar Land Rover he led the Design for Six Sigma programme, educating the company's best technical staff in how to apply mathematical and statistical methods to design problems out of their systems and components.

 He is both a chartered fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and has expertise in the following areas:

• Project Management and Project Planning within the Product Development Process, and Emergency Problem Solving.
• Design for Six Sigma / Quality Functional Design (DFSS/QFD).
• Mathematical Modelling of both physical and business systems supported by Statistical Parameter Identification.
• Systems Engineering (including target setting and cascade, and systems robustness).
• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).
• Robust Engineering Design (including parameter design, tolerance analysis, and noise factor management).
• Design of Experiments, Empirical Model Building, and Transfer Function Development.
• Design Verification Test Planning, and Sign-Off reporting.
• Problem-solving and Root Cause Analysis (with additional emphasis on Prevent Recurrence Actions).
• Statistical Process Control from the perspective of Shewhart & Deming.