[1] 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.

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,[3] which expanded the company's product offering to address precision data acquisition and signal conditioning applications.

In 2005, VTI cofounded the LXI standard,[4] an Ethernet-based instrumentation platform for both rack and distributed applications.