If you ever wrote software or designed hardware in a regulated industry,
it is very possible that you interfaced within a Quality Management System (QMS). I personally have seen a couple of different incarnations of such
a system: from paper-based with wet-ink signatures to fully database
driven and smart-card sign-off. Especially at smaller companies, paper-based
systems are common. Templates, checklist, manuals, SOPs and protocols are
created often as Word documents, are edited, sent, printed, signed, revised,
edited again, etc.
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