With the objective of reducing fuel consumption and emissions, automotive manufacturers and suppliers must attach great importance to precisely adjusted micro- and nanostructured functional surfaces to get in full control of friction. Manufacturing of such specially structured surfaces requires high performance 3D metrology for consistent process monitoring, eneabling fast and reliable measurement results. The importance of microscopic surface characteristics not only applies to technical surfaces but also to surfaces with requirements to a purely haptic or optical effect, where the monitoring of the micro- and nanostructures guarantees a constantly high sense of value. Solarius measuring systems are a guarantor for achieving maximum effectivity in producing challenging surface characteristics in hard environments - providing measuring speed and reliability.