The Vision of Quality

Solarius is a leading provider of metrology systems for non-contact surface inspection, measurement, and analysis. Our systems integrate high-resolution 3D sensors with precision motion control and powerful analysis tools.
Our product portfolio ranges from desktop systems for laboratory operations to standalone semi-automated and fully automated platforms for high-volume inspection.

Our design philosophy emphasizes both standard products and customized solutions to ensure the best technological fit for each specific requirement.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Solarius has a truly global presence, with technology centers in Shanghai, China, and Essen, Germany. Additionally, through our international partner network, we offer sales and customer support across the Americas, Asia, and Europe—supporting an installed base of over 2,000 active metrology systems worldwide.

Solarius Company History

Solarius Development was founded in 2000 in San Jose, at the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. Specializing in optical metrology equipment, Solarius has grown alongside the rapid evolution of Silicon Valley’s technologies and companies from the early 2000s to today.

To provide effective support for our high-volume optical metrology systems in Asia, Solarius Asia was established in 2013.

In 2017, Solarius GmbH was founded in Essen, Germany. This expansion not only strengthened our sales and service capabilities in the European market but also played a strategic role in advancing R&D within Europe’s highly innovative and technology-driven industries.

In 2023, Solarius Development was acquired by the Marposs Group, a global leader in measurement, inspection, and testing solutions for production environments.

As part of the Marposs Group, Solarius now benefits from a worldwide distribution network and enhanced access to resources and technologies—ensuring increased stability and expanded growth opportunities.

Quality is a question of attitude. And reliability.

With the continuous miniaturization of electronics and the increasing integration of people and technology, the requirements for quality and expectations in respect of availability and security of technical systems become more and more challenging. The increasing replacement of human work by machines in everyday areas of life is making technological possibilities increasingly present to the general public's awareness. Autonomous driving, self-flying drones for delivering online orders, and robots mowing the lawn or dusting make it easy to recognize how technology, due to its developing performance, is penetrating areas of activity that were previously reserved for human intelligence.

While this development influences the subjective awareness of safety on the one hand, concrete requirements for the reliability of these machines are derived from it on the other. An autonomous vehicle must not endanger the occupants or other people. A drone needs to know that it will malfunction before it crashes over an inhabited area. A household robot that handles potentially dangerous objects must be protected from unwanted external control. All these requirements go hand in hand with the security of technology, whereby this security is ultimately defined by the quality of a system and its design.

For providers of intelligent process monitoring technology in the production of microelectronics, this lively illustrates the necessary demands on the quality of the own work and thus on the systems and services from Solarius installed in the value chain. This claim goes hand in hand with the self-image of our employees and suppliers consistently and at all times with great personal commitment to contribute to meeting these high requirements.

For these reasons, the foundation stone for a comprehensive quality management system was laid. Based on the central leitmotifs as they result from the maintenance of customer relationships and the management of projects, a process landscape was configured that allows seamless traceability over the entire history of a project. Based on the definition that every system sold and every service provided is essentially a project or can be assigned to an existing project, a combination of database-supported merchandise management, production and accounting systems with conventions and binding procedures was integrated in such a way that information are transparent and understandable about processes within Solarius at any time. The highest requirements, such as those customary in the context of “Copy Exactly” or FDA certified processes, can thus be met while at the same time confidentiality and privacy are effectively protected at all times.

Markets, Activities and Perspectives

The target markets of Solarius include in particular medicine, power supply, consumer electronics and the semiconductor industry. Specifically, the main focus of So­larius activities is on the challenges that regenerative energy supplies and the unstoppably advancing integra­tion of increasingly intelligent systems require.

While innovations in medical technology are the basis for health and life, the semiconductor industry and energy supply are the starting point for every technological advance. Fuel cells enable emission-free mobility while hydrogen can effectively solve the storage problem of renewable energy. Micromechanical components and nanomaterials allow the fastest possible diagnoses and therapies and semiconductors are the basis for communication and control of almost every technological achievement of the present. While mobility is focused on range and availability and thus the requirements for energy efficiency and storage capacity will be addressed in the coming years with large investments, the semiconductor industry is still required to enable higher integration densities and computing power and with significant investments in new technologies to advance miniaturization to quantum systems.

In the medium to long term, Solarius' target markets are stable growth markets. Technological progress cannot and must not destroy the foundations of life any further, the integration and networking of communication and autonomous technology cannot be effectively and permanently halted even in case of uncontrollable events, and ultimately medical performance will continue to remain an unrestricted necessity, as current experience once again has demonstrated impressively

 

International Operations Team


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Lukas Stoppa

Business Development
Solarius Europe

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Peter Joshua

Managing Director
Solarius USA

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Amy Zullo

Manager Logistics & Administration USA

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Hitendra Mistry

Application Specialist
Solarius USA

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Edgar Alvarez

Customer Support
Solarius USA

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Zen Chua

Managing Director
Solarius Asia

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Lily Yan

Manager Logistics & Administration Asia

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Alvin Li

Application Specialist
Solarius Asia

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Bennett Wong

Business Development
Solarius Asia

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Andy Miles

Business Development
Solarius Europe

Working @ Solarius

Constant technological innovation and highest quality standards form the basis for trusting relationships with our customers from BigTech, medical, electronics, automotive and semiconductor manufacturing all over the world. Our team is the basis for every single success.

Knowing that all efforts for top performance and success rely on the great commitment of every single person in our teams, we maintain a culture of individual sovereignty and active interdisciplinary cooperation. We strengthen and lead whenever necessary or desired and offer individual advice, training and further education. We constantly encourage to draw own conclusions and to make confident decisions based on individual knowledge and experience in the individual area of ​​competence. In doing so, we embed successes and setbacks in a contemporary standard of leadership methods and management culture. Our international teams in Europe, Asia and the US as well as our diverse customer structure enable the development of intercultural communication and management skills and open up the opportunity to make contact with a multitude of nationalities and different ways of thinking and perception. Experienced colleagues give support in communication and organization whenever necessary.

A state-of-the-art IT infrastructure contributes to simple and efficient communication, even in globally distributed teams, enables stable services for working at customers' sites as well as in the home office and is the essential foundation for internationally integrated and coordinated hardware and software development. Attractive pay, the clear allocation of tasks and responsibilities in combination with transparent personnel development form a fair and solid basis for daily cooperation.