Innovative Instrumentation Inc.

Innovative Instrumentation Incorporated was founded in 1987 to provide non-destructive magnetic characterization equipment for the magnetic recording industry. From the beginning, the company's philosophy has been to build unique equipment whose robust and adjustment free operation provides reliable and accurate results independent of the operator's skill level. The first product was a magneto-optic magnetometer (MOM) for rapid determination of the loop shape and coercivity of thin film media. At the time, this was the only commercial MOM available for hard magnetic films.

After several years, as the industry progressed towards the use of MR heads, the MrT product became an increasingly important number. Innovative Instrumentation Inc. introduced an entirely new instrument, the remanent moment magnetometer (RMMTM), which could map the remanent properties (MrT, Hcr, S') around a disk.

This instrument has become the major magnetic characterization tool for a number of manufacturers. It was subsequently modified to make similar measurements on the permanent magnet layer on MR head wafers and is now used widely by the head industry where it is known as the XY-RMMTM