Magoo and Associates is a computer network consulting group in Effingham, Illinois, providing all network support to community organizations and businesses. Still, their current clientele is limited because they need a qualified staff member to work on or troubleshoot fiber optic cabling problems. Magoo and Associates sent a staff member to Parkland College to earn Fiber Optic Cabling Repair certificates. This training enhanced their ability to get more business, allowing them to expand their operations and keeping them a leader in the IT sector and more competitive in the IT market.

Fair-Rite Products, Inc. of Flat Rock is one of the world's leaders in developing and producing Ferrite products. The company needed to learn Lean Manufacturing principles to reduce the time from order to completion, reduce wasted motions and inventory, and improve their efficiency and turnaround time when changing from product to product. The training will continue to lead them in the right direction regarding increasing workloads, helping them maintain their reputation and keeping them a leader in their industry, thus possibly growing with the demand for their service. This training is an ongoing continuous improvement plan developed with their corporate office. They have started implementing Lean processes into the daily operations and are starting to see quality results, leading them to be able to obtain more orders and grow their company.