Company Overview

Convergent Manufacturing Technologies US (CMT-US) was founded in early 2015 by Brian Coxon to provide digital manufacturing solutions for complex, high value composite parts to US customers. Services include composites process simulation and consulting, materials characterization and modeling, and research & development of hardware and software.

CMT-US’s primary goals are twofold:

·         To take cutting edge, physics-based process modeling and work with customers to show how it can be pragmatically implemented to solve or mitigate their problems.

·         To develop effective, pragmatic, and industry focused products and solutions to make composites manufacturing lower risk at every stage of the process

CMT-US has successfully sought and renewed government funding for projects that both advance composites modeling knowledge and result in a customer facing simulation product that reduces risk in manufacturing. Current research interests include AFP, cure defects, infusion, additive manufacturing, and effects of defects.

CMT-US is a US owned and controlled company, staffed by US persons and capable of working on export or ITAR controlled programs.

Leadership Team

Brian Coxon

President & Chief Engineering Officer

Brian Coxon has an outstanding record of commercialization of science and technology in the aerospace industry. He received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and started his career with Boeing Commercial Airplane’s Advanced Composite Development Group as a Stress Engineer. He left Boeing to pursue his Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus on composite process, structure, and property interactions on high temperature and thermoplastic composites. 

After achieving his M.Sc. in 1988, Mr. Coxon formed Integrated Technologies, Inc. (Intec) with a focus on advanced materials testing and manufacturing services. At Intec, Mr. Coxon grew the company to over 60 employees, focusing on advancing engineering knowledge, helping both materials suppliers and major OEM customers to design, analyze, and productionize composite structures. As majority owner, Mr. Coxon negotiated Intec’s acquisition by LMI Aerospace in 2009 and stayed on as General Manager and later, Director of Innovation, Research, and Development. In 2012, Mr. Coxon was promoted to Executive Director of Innovation and Technology for LMI, reporting to the CEO. In this role, Mr. Coxon was charged with scaling and productionizing emergent technologies and development projects into the engineering, tooling, and manufacturing production streams at LMI as well as managing the company’s IP portfolio.

In 2015, Mr. Coxon formed Convergent Manufacturing Technologies US Inc. (CMT-US), a “C” Corporation, of which he is the majority owner and President. CMT-US is dedicated to using the most advanced simulation tools available to reduce composite manufacturing costs, where he has led the several research efforts to advance composites process simulation.

Curtis Hickmott, PhD

Curtis Hickmott received his Ph.D. degree in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2015, studying processing of complex composite structures. He received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees as well in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. Curtis’s background includes work in the fields of composite processing methods, materials characterization techniques, mechanical testing of composite structures and modeling of thermal profiles through composite structure during cure. Before joining CMT-US in 2016, Curtis completed his thesis studying thermal profiles in complex composite structures developed using novel tooling methods. At CMT-US, Curtis leads the Process Modeling area as well as program management for R&D funded work.

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