Thomas
Instrumentation was founded by Tom Gluyas in
1971. He had previously worked for the University
of Michigan at Willow Run Labs and in their facility
in Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. He was also employed
by a small company in Ann Arbor, Michigan where
he was involved in the design, testing, installation
and trouble-shooting of some of the first programmable
controllers.
Thomas Instrumentation’s first
product was a unit designed to take measurements
when
highway safety tests were made using sleds to
simulate automobiles crashing into brick walls.
The company moved to New Jersey in 1975. Thomas
Instrumentation has worked with other companies
and individuals on a wide range of products and
ideas. Some of these include, but are not limited
to industrial controllers for the plastics industry,
the packaging industry and to test plastic laminated
windshields. We have helped with the design,
program and manufacture of fuel gauges for diesel
locomotives, controls for watering systems in
greenhouses, smart card technology for copy and
vending machines and non-destructive testing
for turbine engines in aircraft.
We have written
software and designed hardware on numerous projects
for many customers. We
have always brought something unique and valuable
to the creative process. It might be a way to
lower the cost of the device, or some insight
to the final overall design that makes the new
product stand alone and at the top of its class.
We have worked for other companies from the very
beginning of the conceptual design of a product,
to the point where we are mass producing the
same product and watching these companies grow.
Thomas
Instrumentation was founded by Tom Gluyas in
1971. He had previously worked for the University
of Michigan at Willow Run Labs and in their facility
in Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. He was also employed
by a small company in Ann Arbor, Michigan where
he was involved in the design, testing, installation
and trouble-shooting of some of the first programmable
controllers.