IT news and products; Karl Storz standardizes on MKS for management of global software development operations.MKS (Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, www.mks.com) A software company that specializes in programming tools and utilities for a variety of platforms. For example, its RCS system for Windows, OS/2 and Unix is a version control software package. Inc. Have announced that Karl Storz, a world leader in medical endoscopic en·do·scope n. An instrument for examining visually the interior of a bodily canal or a hollow organ such as the colon, bladder, or stomach. en technology and instrumentation has selected MKS Integrity, MKS's application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM) platform, to manage global development operations in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. MKS Integrity enables Karl Storz development teams in each of the three locations to collaborate in real time on software projects, and MKS Integrity's powerful workflow, process management and automatically generated audit trails simplifies and speeds up the Company's compliance to stringent FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. regulations. Endoscopic equipment is used in human and veterinary medicine and for industrial applications. These high technology medical systems consist of components from the most diverse fields of engineering Engineering is a collective term to describe the application of scientific theory in the design, creation, and maintenance of technology. According to 1992 NSF data, the largest fields of engineering are Civil, Electrical / Electronic, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering (by number of , including optics, mechanics and electronics, and must be manufactured to exacting quality standards. Karl Storz development and manufacturing process encompasses over 8,000 products. www.mks.com |
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