VDA 4 QualityManagement in the Automotive Industry Quality Assurance Part 1 prior to Serial Application Partnership Processes Methods 3rdEdition1996 Quality Assurance prior to Serial Application - Partnership - Processes - Methods 3rd Edition 1996 Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA) Liability exclusion The VDA volumes are guidelines available for anyone to use. It is the responsibility of the person using the guidelines to ensure it's correct use in each specific case. The VDA volumes take into account state of the art technology, current at the time of issue. By using the VDA guideline, nobody is relieved of the responsibility for their own actions. Each person acts, in this respect, at their own risk. Liability by VDA, and those persons involved in issuing VDA guidelines, is hereby excluded. If during the use of VDA guidelines, errors or the possibility of misinterpreta- tion are found, it is requested that these be notified to the VDA immediately, so that any possible faults can be corrected. Referenced standards The extracts from standards identified with their DIN number and issue date are reproduced with the permission of the DIN Deutsches Institut fur Normung e.V. (German Institute for Standardization). The version with the latest issue date is definitive for the use of the standard, which can be obtained from the publishers Beuth Verlag GmbH, 10772 Berlin. Copyright The publication, including all it's parts, is protected by copyright. Any use outside of the narrow boundaries of copyright law, without the written to copying, translation, microfilming and the saving and processing in electronic systems. ISSN0943-9412 Copyright 1996 by Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA) (Association of the German Automotive Industry) D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, LindenstraBe 5 Overall production: Druckerei Henrich D-60528Frankfurt amMain,SchwanheimerStraBe110 Printed on chlorine-free bleached paper with crude oil free printing color Preface to the 3rd Edition With the 2nd Edition of the VDA Publication 4 in 1986, essential methods of Quality work in the Automotive and Supply Industry has strongly decen- tralized through the introduction of TQM (Total Quality Management) and extended to all areas of a company. Thereby the responsibility for the quality direct influence on the product or service provided. Furthermore, additional methods have come into practice, which are com- prehensively described in the VDA Volume 4, Part 1, 3rd Edition using examples. These methods are the precondition for effective cooperation between pre-series phase (see also VDA Volume 2, Quality Assurance of Supplies in the Automotive Industry). The phases and scopes of the methods are summarized in an outline. FMEA has changed in it's overall scope and has been further developed as System FMEA for product and process. The significance of FMEA and the description,madeit necessaryto issuea separateVDApublication,Volume 4Part2. with this publication, as well as the many individual suggestions from the circle of involved authors. namedbeforeeachchapter. AUDI AG, Ingolstadt BMW AG, Munich Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart Continental AG, Hannover Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Qualitat e.V, (DGQ) Frankfurt Fichtel & Sachs AG, Schweinfurt Ford-Werke AG, Cologne GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann HagenmeyerGmbH&Cie, Ludwigsburg Kolbenschmidt AG, Neckarsulm Mercedes Benz AG, Stuttgart Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart Siemens AG, Regensburg Steyer-Daimler-Puch AG, Steyer ITT Automotive Europe GmbH, Bietigheim VDO Adolf Schindling AG, Babenhausen Wabco Westinghouse Fahrzeugbremsen GmbH, Hannover Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen Frankfurt/Main in May1996 VERBAND DERAUTOMOBILINDUSTRIEE.V.(VDA) 2 AUDI AG, Ingolstadt BMW AG, Munich Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart Continental AG, Hannover Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Qualitat e.V, (DGQ) Frankfurt Fichtel & Sachs AG, Schweinfurt Ford-Werke AG, Cologne GE