My company, Cognition Corporation, will be sponsoring the upcoming IQPC DFSS conference in Chicago June 22-24, 2009.

At this conference I will be giving a workshop (June 22) on using the newest Web 2.0 technology to implement a systems engineering approach into common DFSS / CDOV processes. The workshop will focus on the powerful new tools made available with Web 2.0 to create simple process step templates on the web. Engineers simply follow these templates (which are bookmarks in their browser!) to create and manage everything from voices, requirements, specificaitons, tests, risks, and costs. The templates then automatically generate documents and compliance deliverables such as Market Requirements, Product Requirements, Product Specs, Test Plans, Risk Plans, Cost Management Planse, etc. Anyone who wants to learn about this exciting new technology should sign up for the IQPC DFSS conference and attend the workshop. We also have a lot of fun going out in downtown Chicago for dinner and live blues.

You can see an example of a typical Voice/QFD template on my website.

I have also added a members's section to my Cockpit site where users can sign up and log in to view files, presentations, and other useful Cockpit information. I will be adding to this section regularly and there is a place to add suggestions for what you want to see about Cockpit. I will add whatever you want!