President and Founder, EHK International

My name is Jeffery Kurtz. I am the founder of EHK, International. Well, EHK is a global supply chain management company. We do consulting. We also do new product introduction, as well as commercialization of products that people are looking to have built from sketch or from design. Supply chain is a very large umbrella, which exists, I mean, you have everything from transportation and movement of goods to the sourcing and production of those goods. Pretty much that you see, touch, taste is moved by truck at some point. That's part of the supply chain. Where we kind of interject into that is putting consumers with our manufacturers and helping them In that design road to get the product from either commercialization perspective all the way through to the end user. The products do come from a wide spectrum, and it seems to be every year I've been working overseas, for almost 20 years now, I've worked on everything from aircraft components through industrial chemicals, automotive components, military defense, down hole oil so it's the relationship part of what I do, or what I've done in building my time, has been able for me to be able to offer solutions to customers that maybe a traditional, single vein people wouldn't be able to do. We have such a large network of relationships throughout. Typically what we'll do is we'll get something, if it's a metallurgical part, a plastic piece, or whatever it may be, we'll get it. If we don't have a sketch of it, we'll create one through CAD. Typically we outsource those types of things to people that do drawing for a living. We review that with the customer. The customer gives us their feedback. We do a little bit of design feasibility, then we go into doing a first article. That's basically the first physical piece of that product. We have to do all the testing and what not, whatever the client requires that to be. If you have an aircraft component, obviously that comes with a lot of testing, and a lot of CMM, and metallurgal and all kinds of things that go into it. So depending on what kind of product it is is going to depend on what the scope is, but typically, it's get a sketch, build a full fledged drawing, then go into production.