VDI guideline

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A VDI guideline is drawn up by the Association of German Engineers . There are currently more than 2050 valid VDI guidelines. They contain recommendations and rules in the field of engineering and the state of the art . The existing VDI guidelines are regularly updated in line with technical developments. More than 200 new VDI guidelines are added to the VDI set of rules every year. The VDI guidelines are distributed in printed and electronic versions by Beuth Verlag . Alternatively, they can be viewed at various public display points in Germany and abroad, mostly university libraries.

According to its statutes, the creation of technical regulations, mainly VDI guidelines, is an essential purpose of the VDI. These are prepared by experts from industry , science and administration in voluntary work together with full-time employees of the respective VDI specialist society in VDI guideline committees. The objection procedure gives the interested public the opportunity to exert influence.

Legal meaning of VDI guidelines

A VDI guideline is a pioneering working document for both science and practice. With its assessment and evaluation criteria, it provides well-founded decision-making aids and forms “a benchmark for flawless technical procedures”. VDI guidelines give experts the security of being guided by a recognized rule of technology and of acting accordingly. Basically, VDI guidelines have the character of recommendations. Everyone is free to use them, that is, they can be used, but may also ensure compliance with the state of the art in other ways. The application of a VDI guideline does not release the user from responsibility for his own actions and it is therefore legally at his own risk.

VDI guidelines acquire particular legal significance nationally, for example through their inclusion in laws, ordinances, decrees or regulations and in private contracts. The VDI 2700 series of guidelines “Load securing” should be mentioned here as an example. The reference in laws and ordinances relieves the state of detailed legal regulations. Even in cases in which VDI guidelines have not been made part of a contract by the contracting parties, they serve as a decision-making aid in the event of a dispute if the law of sales and work contracts involves material defects. The assumption here is that the VDI guidelines describe the recognized state of the art.

Goals of VDI guidelines

VDI guidelines pursue the objectives listed below in particular:

  • Establishment of assessment and evaluation criteria
  • Treatment of technical-scientific and technical-economic questions
  • Provision of trend-setting technical-scientific working documents and decision-making aids
  • Description of the state of technology, research and science
  • Promotion of the exchange of experience and technology transfer
  • Help with the implementation of technical developments in practice and initiation of technical-scientific developments
  • Concretization of indefinite legal terms for certain areas in the sense of the respective legal definition
  • Practical explanation and supplement of national, European and international technical rules
  • Publication as generally recognized rules of technology
  • Creation of a basis for terms and conditions and contracts
  • Creation of principles of order
  • Support of development-accompanying rule-setting

The work on VDI guidelines also serves to find a consolidated national position with the aim of introducing this into European and international technical regulation. Together with other technical regulators, in particular the German Institute for Standardization , the VDI eV supports the goal of creating a uniform set of rules covering all areas of technology and representing it in European and international committees.

Development of VDI guidelines

Anyone can suggest a topic for a VDI guideline; likewise the revision of an already existing VDI guideline. If a committee is formed after examination by the responsible VDI specialist society, it is made up of volunteer experts from the fields of research and teaching, industry, technical monitoring and the public sector. In contrast to DIN, it is not a company that is appointed to the committee, but a natural person .

As a result of this professional exchange of experience, a VDI draft guideline ( green print ) appears, which is subjected to a public objection procedure. The final version ( white print ) of a VDI guideline is only adopted after the appeals received have been examined . This procedure should guarantee neutrality towards individual economic interests as well as acceptance and practical relevance.

The publication of new VDI guidelines and draft guidelines is announced in the DIN-Anzeiger für technical rules , on the websites of VDI and Beuth Verlag and in the specialist press. Draft guidelines by the VDI / DIN commission for keeping the air clean will also be announced in the Federal Gazette .

history

Excerpt from the journal of the Association of German Engineers from October 25, 1884 with the first VDI guideline

In 1881 the VDI decided to promote the comparability of capital goods. In the following year a draft guideline text was published in the weekly of the Association of German Engineers ; the readers of this journal should be given the opportunity to comment on this text. On October 25, 1884, the first VDI guideline with the title “Principles and instructions for the investigation of steam boilers and steam engines to determine their performance” appeared in the journal of the Association of German Engineers . In April 1915 guidelines for the design and execution of prostheses for war invalids were issued. In January 1958, the first VDI guideline issued by the Air Cleanliness Commission founded a year earlier was published with the title “VDI 2091 Dust ejection from steam generators over 10 t / h output”.

Over time, the system was adapted to new technical developments. The VDI manual for keeping the air clean has been merged with the previous dust manual and reorganized. Accordingly, the VDI manual dust technology was no longer continued. Several DIN standards committees and VDI specialist societies were merged, and accordingly the VDI / DIN Commission for Air Quality Control (KRdL) and the new title VDI / DIN Air Quality Manual as well as other joint editions of DIN standards and VDI guidelines were created .

Manuals

VDI guidelines are summarized in manuals. It is possible that a guideline is assigned to several manuals. The guideline VDI 1000, which describes the principles of guideline work, is assigned to all manuals. The following manuals are available:

  • VDI architecture manual
  • VDI elevator technology manual
  • VDI / VDE manual for automation technology
  • VDI-Handbuch Bautechnik
  • VDI Bionics Manual
  • VDI Biotechnology Manual
  • VDI manual for electrical engineering and building automation
  • VDI Energy Technology Handbook
  • VDI manual factory planning and operation
  • VDI manual facility management
  • VDI / VDE manual production metrology
  • VDI manual transmission technology
  • VDI manual GMO monitoring
  • VDI information technology manual
  • VDI manual for plastics technology
  • VDI load securing manual
  • VDI Noise Reduction Manual
  • VDI manual for management and safety in environmental technology
  • VDI Medical Technology Manual
  • VDI / VDE manual for micro and precision engineering
  • VDI Handbook Livestock Husbandry: Emissions / Immissions
  • VDI / VDE manual optical technologies
  • VDI manual for product data exchange
  • VDI manual for product development and construction
  • VDI manual for production technology and manufacturing processes
  • VDI / VDE manual process measurement technology and structure analysis
  • VDI manual room ventilation technology
  • VDI / DIN manual for keeping the air clean
  • VDI manual for clean room technology
  • VDI manual resource management in environmental technology
  • VDI manual for sanitary technology
  • VDI manual shipbuilding and ship technology
  • VDI manual vibration technology
  • VDI-Handbuch Technik Biomass / Soil
  • VDI manual for technical logistics
  • VDI manual for technical sales and product management
  • VDI manual value management / value analysis
  • VDI manual for process engineering and chemical engineering
  • VDI manual heating / heating technology
  • VDI manual for materials technology
  • VDI manual on reliability

Important or known VDI guidelines

  • VDI 2035 sheet 1 Avoidance of damage in hot water heating systems - stone formation in drinking water heating and hot water heating systems
  • VDI 2066 measurement of particles - dust measurement in flowing gases
    • Sheet 1: Gravimetric determination of the dust load
    • Sheet 5: Fractional dust measurement using the impact method - cascade impactor
    • Sheet 8: Measurement of the smoke number in combustion systems for EL heating oil
    • Sheet 10: Measurement of emissions of PM10 and PM2.5 at guided sources using the impaction method
  • VDI 2067 Economic efficiency of technical building systems
  • VDI 2077 consumption cost billing
  • VDI 2222 construction methodology
  • VDI 2223 Methodical design of technical products
  • VDI 2225 construction methodology - technical and economic construction
  • VDI 2230 Systematic calculation of highly stressed screw connections
  • VDI 2242 Constructing ergonomic products
  • VDI 2244 Constructing safety-compliant products
  • VDI 2249 Information processing in product development
  • VDI 2343 Recycling of electrical (on) ic devices
  • VDI 2700 load securing on road vehicles
  • VDI 2714 Sound propagation outdoors
  • VDI 3722 Effect and evaluation of traffic noise
  • VDI 3808 Energetic evaluation of buildings and building technology; Use of existing procedures
  • VDI 3865 Measurement of organic soil contamination
    • Sheet 1: Measurement planning for the investigation of the soil air for volatile organic compounds
    • Sheet 2: Techniques for the active collection of soil air samples
    • Sheet 3: Gas chromatographic determination of low-boiling organic compounds in soil air after enrichment with activated carbon or XAD-4 and desorption with organic solvents
    • Sheet 4: Gas chromatographic determination of low-boiling organic compounds in soil air by direct measurement
  • VDI 3866 Determination of asbestos in technical products
    • Sheet 1: Basics - taking and preparing the samples
    • Sheet 2: Infrared spectroscopic method
    • Sheet 4: Phase contrast microscopic method
    • Sheet 5: Scanning electron microscope method
  • VDI 3867 Measurement of particles in the outside air - Characterization of test aerosols - Determination of the particle number concentration and number size distribution of aerosols
  • VDI 4500 technical documentation
    • Sheet 1: User documentation
    • Sheet 2: Internal technical product documentation
    • Sheet 3: Recommendations for the creation and distribution of electronic spare parts information
  • VDI 6008 Barrier-free living spaces
  • VDI 6022 room air technology, room air quality
  • VDI 6023 Hygiene in drinking water installations - requirements for planning, execution, operation and maintenance
  • VDI 6036 fastening of radiators

List of VDI guidelines

literature

  • VDI 1000: 2010-06 VDI guideline work; Principles and instructions (VDI Guideline Work; Principles and procedures). Berlin, Beuth Verlag ( summary online )
  • Volker M. Brennecke: Standard setting by private associations - for the interlinking of state control and social self-regulation in environmental protection ; 1996, ISBN 3-8041-4234-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News from the DITR database . In: DIN-Mitteilungen. October 2014, ISSN  0722-2912 , p. 133.
  2. ↑ Orders & Downloads. Association of German Engineers V., accessed January 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Public display points of the VDI guidelines. Association of German Engineers V., accessed January 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c VDI 1000: 2010-06 VDI guideline work; Principles and instructions (VDI Guideline Work; Principles and procedures). Berlin, Beuth Verlag, pp. 2-3.
  5. ↑ VDI 1000: 2010-06 VDI guideline work; Principles and instructions (VDI Guideline Work; Principles and procedures). Berlin, Beuth Verlag, pp. 6-7.
  6. ↑ a b VDI 1000: 2010-06 VDI guideline work; Principles and instructions (VDI Guideline Work; Principles and procedures). Berlin, Beuth Verlag, p. 14.
  7. ↑ VDI / DIN commission for keeping the air clean (ed.): Activity report 2017 . Structure - tasks - results. 2018, ISSN  0940-0281 , p. 4 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Sager: The steam engine and the VDI - 250th anniversary of the steam engine . In: technikforum . No. 01/2019 , April 2019, p. 48-49 .
  9. ^ Hugo Kotthaus: Joint work in the specialist divisions . In: VDI-Z. tape 98 , no. 14 , May 11, 1956, pp. 682 .
  10. ^ Commission for keeping the air clean in the VDI and DIN - KRdL standards committee (ed.): 50 years KRdL - active for clean air . KRdL standards committee, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 3-931384-59-4 , p. 39 .
  11. ↑ z. B. the DIN / VDI standards committee for acoustics, noise reduction and vibration technology (NALS) in 1990
  12. ↑ VDI / DIN commission for keeping the air clean (KRdL): VDI / DIN manual for keeping the air clean. Association of German Engineers V., accessed December 19, 2018 .