ABSTRACT
Virtual Instrumentation (which was previously defined in Chapter 73, “Virtual Instrumentation: Applications in Biomedical Engineering”) allows organizations to effectively harness the power of the PC to access, analyze, and share information throughout the organization. With vast amounts of data available from increasingly sophisticated enterprise-level data sources, potentially useful information is often left hidden due to a lack of useful tools. Virtual instruments can employ a wide array of technologies such as multidimensional analyses and Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools to detect patterns, trends, causalities, and discontinuities to derive knowledge and make informed decisions.
