Patricia Yulkowski

Patricia Yulkowski is second-generation President and CEO to the privately held, American-owned and operated Total Door Systems.

For more than 40 years, Total Door Systems has built comprehensive integrated door systems, engineering and manufacturing all components and assembling them into one system.

Under Yulkowski’s leadership, Total Door Systems in 2010 moved into a new facility and over a three-year period re-engineered the company around LEAN manufacturing principles focused on quality, efficiency, sustainability and local sourcing. Their results: a 250 percent increase in efficiency, 68 percent reduction in scrap, and 100 percent on-time delivery. Total Door Systems are listed with the latest UL sustainable product guide.

Yulkowski has created a culture of continuous improvement at Total Door that ensures constant evaluation and innovation around the components included in the door systems, as well as the invention of new technologies and system enhancements that add to TDS’ status as the global leader of integrated access technologies.

Yulkowski is a current member of the American Institute of Architects Michigan, and past president of the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA).

She has received multiple honors for her outstanding leadership in the transformation of her company, including being selected by the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) to showcase TDS for its annual “tour of best manufacturing practices,” one of three companies selected by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) that represent the future of manufacturing; and the recipient of the RADTECH – President’s Award for outstanding leadership in the use of UV/EB manufacturing Technology.