• To understand your factory
• To manage your plant
• To succeed you as CEO

Let me help you by transferring the Best Practices, I used at these major manufacturers, to your Successor in your factory.

• Gilkey Window Company, Coached the owner's Son
• General Electric, jet engine components repair
• Pella Doors, glass sealing
• Armor Holdings-Humvee Army Vehicles
• Delphi automotive shock absorbers
• Formica bar-coding laminate sheets
• Ford Motor Co. assembly line startup
• Chrysler Transmission Plant, robot project manager
• Cincinnati Milacron, industrial sales

Teaching Lean Manufacturing, D.M.A.I.C., 5-S, and Error proofing to your successor in their office. Then they fix actual manufacturing problems in your factory, and I follow behind.

And always sensitive to the issues in the private family business.

Why a Manufacturing Coach?

Why use me instead of the Owner or Father?

I have the experience as a manufacturing Engineer working at:

• Gilkey Window Co.
• GE Aircraft Repair
• Pella Entry Doors
• Armor Holdings/BAE
• Delphi Automotive
• Formica
• Ford Motor Co., Batavia
• Chrysler, Kokomo, IN
• Cincinnati Milacron

27 years of successful "on-the-floor" experience in major companies. I am an "Outsider", but with an "Insider's" loyalty to the family's goals.

I can change the way the other employees see your Successor, "...yes but, your Dad said..." makes it difficult for the Successor to lead.

• Bachelors of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1971
• Headquartered in Loveland, Ohio
• Married 38 years; 31 year old son, daughter is 28.

• Mike Gilkey, CEO Gilkey Window Company, (513) 769-4527
• Vince Gilkey, COO Gilkey Window Company, (513) 769-4527

"I just wanted to tell you about a man who did a great job coaching my son, Vince, on how to step in and run my window factory. Jim McGonegle did a great job. He may call you soon."

Mike Gilkey