kirby outdoors products and services
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Specializing in Product Development from Concept to ProductionTRANSCRIPT
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Kirby Outdoor’s Products &
Services
“Specializing in Product Development from Concept to Production”
August 2009
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Table of ContentsCompany History 3
Company Objective 4
Summary of Services 5
Core Industries 6
Customers 7
Company Experience 8
“Art to Part” Product Experience 10
Conclusion 18
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Company BackgroundKirby Outdoor’s Products & Services is a division of PGK Engineering, a family and veteran owned company. With over 30 years of automotive experience, PGK offers design engineering and development, tooling, manufacturing and assembly of interior and exterior components. Our family members are avid outdoorsmen. We are active in most hunting and fishing activities that Michigan has to offer. We have also been extremely blessed to have hunted all of over the US, co-own a sportsmen's club and are active in many other outdoor community and church programs. Kirby Outdoor’s Products & Services combines our automotive experience with our passion for the outdoors to offer our clients a unique service.
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Our ObjectiveOur objective is utilize our automotive and recreational experience, technologies, and resources to produce quality products for the outdoor manufacturers, retailers, and individual entrepreneurs.
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Summary of Services
Product Analysis
Program Management
Design & Engineering Services
Computer Aided Engineering Services
Tooling, Mold & Fixture Services
Technology Management
Manufacturing Engineering Services
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Core Target IndustriesHunting and Fishing Products Sporting Goods Recreational Vehicles Underwater Sporting EquipmentMedical and Healthcare ProductsEMT ProductsPet ProductsHome Improvement ProductsLawn and Garden ProductsBed, Bath and HomeAgriculture Products
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Ames Tru TemperBlue Sky OutfittersCountryman LiveryCoyote CamouflageEZGOField LockerGolf Travel Case Master Craft Boat Company Novelty ManufacturingOtter Products PlanoPolaris IndustriesRubbermaid
Customers
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Company ExperienceOur passion for the outdoors coupled with our automotive product development background has afforded us the opportunity to work on a variety of projects.
Projects range from a full interior design of the Prostar 190 Ski Boat for MasterCraft Boat Company, to a variety of gun and bow cases, to tackle boxes and many products in between.
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“Art to Part” Product Experience
PGK provides our clients a full service “Art to Part” one stop engineering and development resource.
Our expertise and services are extended to clients such as outdoor product manufacturers and/or individuals who would like to develop and market a new product idea.
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Bow Case Injection molded reversible sidecreated from a single cavity tool.
Patented pillar support structure and arrow holder design which is more secure and less costly to produce.
Blow-Molded Gun Case • Identified molder • Generated engineering drawings• Worked with molder to supply best
design for manufacturing
Blow-Molded ATV Storage Box
Hunting Products
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Flipsider Tackle Organizer
•Generated concepts, 3D files, and authored patent
•Worked to develop molded rigid plastic and EVA components
•Established new look and function in soft sided category
Fishing Products
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•Generated concepts
•Worked directly with client in development to insure buy-in and product success
•Refined design and built prototypes
•Mold engineered and managed tool build
Sporting Goods Products
• Generated concepts for “Sit on Top” roto-molded polyethylene kayaks
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Lawn and Garden Products
•Generated product concepts
•Added concept features to improve competitive edge
•Generated concepts for injection and blow-molded planters
•Developed all products shown
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Beverageware/Dinnerware
•Surveyed retired tools (compression molds) to determine revision opportunities•Revised plate tool, designed, and tooled matching companion pieces•Created successful dinnerware line with minimal capital expenditure•Line was a multimillion dollar seller for the client for ten years
Bed, Bath and Home Products
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• Generated concepts of shower chairs and transfer benches
• Created new look for the blow-molded, roto-molded and tubular framed products
Medical and Healthcare Products
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Conclusion
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• As American business owners and outdoorsmen, Kirby Outdoor’s Products and Services would like the opportunity to quote new business with you.
• Our business enables us to keep our employee’s working while helping to restart our American communities one at a time.
• Our services and products are made in the USA.