History
| 1985 | Dr. Rainer Brodmann, at the time with Rodenstock in Munich, developed the first commercial scattered light measuring instrument. | |
| 1988 | VW, Daimler und IBM successfully applied the scattered light instrument to piston bolts, gear – and crankshafts, valve and hard disk manufacturing. | |
| 1992 | Rodenstock withdrew from the measuring market. | |
| 2004 | OptoSurf founded in Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe in Germany, by Dr. Rainer Brodmann | |
| 2006 | Market launch of the OS 500. First applications at ZF Lemförder, Stahl Judenburg, Daimler, GruppeHeat | |
| 2008 | First fully automatic hip joint measuring machine | |
| 2009 | VDA 2009 „Scattered light measuring technology " approved. OptoSurf wins the Dr. Rudolf Eberle Innovation prize |