aerospace defense power & energy founded irvine ca 1990 headquarters irvine ca website www.vtiinstruments.com vti instruments sells precision instrumentation for electronic signal distribution data acquisition and monitoring . the company s products are used to automate the functional testing of complex electronic systems as well as to monitor and record data that characterizes the physical integrity of aircraft engines and other large structures . formerly known as vxi technology 1 vti serves the following markets aerospace defense and energy and power generation . vti s headquarters is located in irvine california in the heart of orange county with additional offices located in cleveland ohio ; lake stevens washington ; and bangalore india . worldwide sales and support is provided by a network of manufacturer s representatives and distributors . contents 1 history 2 industry solutions from vti instruments 3 external links 4 references history edit founded in 1990 vti initially developed prototyping tools and offered custom design services . by 1997 vti had introduced two new vxi based instrumentation and signal switching platforms for functional test ate the vmip and smip series . in 2003 vti purchased agilent s mechanical test business unit 2 which expanded the company s product offering to address precision data acquisition and signal conditioning applications . in 2005 vti cofounded the lxi standard 3 an ethernet based instrumentation platform for both rack and distributed applications . vti s first lxi class a products were on the market by 2006 . 4 in 2009 vti introduced the ex1266 as the industry s first lxi class a 5 modular switching and measurement system . 6 on feb 10 2014 vti instruments was acquired by ametek inc. berwyn pa for a reported price of 74 million . vti instruments annual sales at the time were approximately 38 million . 7 industry solutions from vti instruments edit automated test equipment ate and functional test high density modular signal and i o solutions mil aerospace transportation aircraft avionics medical temperature voltage and pressure precision integrated data acquisition signal conditioning solutions thermal chamber testing environmental test screening jet engine monitoring health monitoring structural and strain test aerospace and civil test engineers perform structural design by doing real world testing on scale models and proofing of final constructions . vti has installations of structural test systems ranging from 10 to over 10 000 channels . aircraft fatigue transport tunnel stress nvh and dsa scalable on board dsps multi channel independent digitizers and signal conditioning help capture analog signals . acoustic chamber control control systems nvh modal signal routing and distribution signal switching systems route signals of interest between test system instruments and the device under test . vti s high density modular switching solutions employ extensive signal shielding and relays to ensure that the test system is minimally aware of the switch s presence . avionics missiles transportation electronics engines launch vehicles radars external links edit vti instruments website agilent technologies and vxi technology announce next generation lan based modular platform standard for automated test systems vxi technology changes name to vti instruments vxi technology completes acquisition of agilent technologies mechanical data acquisition product segment industry s first lxi class a scalable switch and measurement subsystem references edit http www.reuters.com article pressrelease idus246123 11 feb 2009 prn20090211 http www.sunforce.com news vxi % 20agilent % 20acquisition.pdf http www.lxistandard.org press pr 20040914 http www.lxistandard.org products conformant % 20lxi % 20devices % 202009 04 30.pdf http www.lxistandard.org products conformant % 20lxi % 20devices % 202009 04 30.pdf http news.thomasnet.com fullstory 825288 wsj marketwatch retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vti instruments & oldid 712989999 categories companies based in irvine californiacompanies established in 1990electronic test equipment manufacturers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 april 2016 at 07 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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