VDA 4 QualityManagement in the Automotive Industry QualityAssurance Part 3 prior to Serial Application Project Planning 1st Edition1998 Quality Assurance prior to Serial Application Project Planning 1st Edition 1998 Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA) 4 Liability exclusion Volumes of the VDA publications ,Quality Management in the Automotive Industry" are guidelines available for anyone to use. It is the responsibility of the person using the guidelines to ensure their correct use in each specific case. issue. By using the VDA guidelines, nobody is relieved of the responsibility for their own actions. Each person acts, in this respect, at their own risk. hereby excluded. If during the use of VDA guidelines, errors or the possibility of misinterpre- tationarefound,itisrequestedthatthesebenotifiedtotheVDAimmedia- tely, 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 isdefinitive for the use of the standard, which can be attained 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 permission of the VDA, is unauthorized and illegal. This applies in particular to copying, translation, microfilming and the saving and processing in electronicsystems. ISSN0943-9412 Copyright 1998by Verband der Automobilindustrie e.V. (VDA) (Association of the German Automotive Industry) QualityManagementCenter (QMC) D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, LindenstraBe 5 Overall production: Druckerei Henrich GmbH D-60528Frankfurt am Main, Schwanheimer StraBe110 Printed onchlorine-freebleached paper 3