(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson) -- The Pyzdek Institute LLC has added two online lean training classes to its portfolio of online courses on process excellence topics.

(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, IL) -- The Joint Commission, a health-care accrediting body, and SGS Group, a verification, inspection, certification, and testing company, are joining forces to offer hospitals and critical-access hospitals in the United States the option of pursuing

(Columbia Business School: New York) -- Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness has announced the winners of the second annual Deming Cup. The winners received the award at a dinner at Columbia University on Nov. 2, 2011.

(Bosch Rexroth: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Developed with lean manufacturing expert, Richard Rahn, Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast episode 17, “Lean Transformation in the Aerospace Supply Chain,” explores how to apply lean manufacturing concepts to the aerospace industry to improve produc

(RWJF: Houston) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced an Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) $100,000 “app challenge”—a competition among technology developers to create easy-to-use online tools that help consumers find information on the quality of their local physicians

(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), a global nonprofit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals who use knowledge to create high-quality, cost-effective good manufacturing practices (GMP) solutions, will soo

(Pipeline Analytics: Pittsburgh) -- New for WinCan V8 pipe inspection and asset management software, the WinCan Laser module from Pipeline Analytics makes it easy to capture pipeline geometry using a video-inspection crawler outfitted with practically any laser profiling hardware.

(QuantumVision Corp.: Roswell, GA) -- QuantumVision Corp., manufacturer, designer, and implementer of custom machine vision solutions, has created the Hammerhead, the industry’s first 3-D stereo smart vision system.

(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a global supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks v. 12.

(Agistix: Redwood City, CA)--Agistix, a global provider of transportation management solutions, has announced the launch of Total Visibility.