MasterControl Inc., a provider of software solutions that enable life science and other regulated companies to Source: MasterControl Inc.deliver life-improving products to more people sooner, has launched the MasterControl Validation Excellence Tool (VxT). The solution is designed to help companies required to conduct risk-based software validation to reduce the time from months down to days or hours.

VxT comes free with the company’s cloud solutions and combines a best-practice testing and software lifecycle approach with an innovative risk-evaluation tool that focuses on the critical business processes (CBPs) for life science companies.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandates that software used for the design, manufacture, packaging, labeling, storage, installation and servicing of all medical devices and pharmaceuticals intended for human use be validated. MasterControl VxT is a cloud application designed to help users assess their validation risks, identify the CBPs that require validation and minimize the organization’s validation requirements of MasterControl cloud-based systems.

The easy-to-use application includes the comprehensive risk assessment and testing mitigation tool, which evaluates multiple risks, such as software usage, impact of failure, regulatory requirements, variation from best practices and testing mitigations.