"I used the Lean Zone Office last week with a client.  We were investigating the order entry process in a bus manufacturing company.  The Lean Zone Office simulation provided an excellent experiental visit to the potentials of a lean office.  It opened the eyes of several participants regarding what can be done and how little the costs are. It also positioned the facilitator to have a useful discussion regarding the culture change necessary to bring the benefits of a lean office home.  In several instances, my team actually used  the solutions seen in the simulation.  It does take a bit of time setting the activities up the first time, but after that, the learning curve is gentile.  Thank you, Visionary Products, Inc."

-Richard H. Townsend, Manager
Kobalt Partners LLC

 

 

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"I was introduced to the Visionary Products Airplane Simulation kit about five years ago. I thought it was a very well designed activity that taught the basic elements of lean manufacturing. I've used similar training activities in the past and found that Visionary Product's airplane simulation kit offers the most quick and effective method to get the message across. It's fun, easy to setup and packaged nicely in a convenient box so that you can take it anywhere. I recommend this product to any company that is looking to start a lean program. It's a little pricey, but it will pay for itself at least twelve times over. That's the truth - I just bought twelve kits in the last two weeks!"

-Christian Basa, QLP Lean Black Belt
Baxter Healthcare | BioScience Division

 

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"I learned a few years ago how effective and how much fun the participants [had with] this exercise (assembling airplanes out of Legos). I was doing a second or third series of lean training sessions for a major automotive supplier that brought in their suppliers from all over the world to teach them the lean approach. Immediately after the exercise, one of the engineers called back to his home office to brag on his team's score on the fourth approach. It seems that his team was not only competing with the other teams in the class but was also competing with a team that had previously completed the class. Their efforts in using lean principles to shave every second off their process time and grasp as much learning as possible in a very short time has made every exercise rewarding to me as a consultant and trainer.

I have recommended this product at international professional conferences. With your permission, I have used it with my lean tutorial sessions for a SME Professional Development Conference in Memphis and an ASQ World Conference in Orlando.

Thank you for helping to make my job look easy!"

-Bill Cardin, President
Cardin Quality Training Associates, Inc.

 

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"I have used your Lean Zone Office simulation to introduce Lean to many administrative teams, and the comments are always along the lines of "excellent workshop - we enjoyed the hands-on approach; now we see how important Lean is to an organization and how we can apply it in an office environment." Lean Zone Office is a great product."

-Willie L. Carter
Quantum Associates, Inc.