Through a process of trial and error in optical production, Carl Zeiss wrote the history of the high-tech group of companies founded back in 1846. Ernst Abbe, business partner to the company founder, turned the method into a systematic, scientific technique.
This marked the beginning of more than 170 years of ongoing innovation at the company's parent site in Jena, Group headquarters in Oberkochen and at many other development and production locations all over the world.
ZEISS stands for technology and innovation leadership and aspires to shape markets through innovation.
ZEISS is creating the framework required to ensure that it can continue to develop market-shaping innovations in the future – both for the company itself and for every single employee.