VDA 19.2 Assembly Cleanliness

VDA Vol. 19 part 2 is concerned with technical cleanliness in assembly – environment, logistics, personnel, and assembly equipment – and is to be viewed as a guideline.

Contents of VDA Vol. 19 part 2:

A           SCOPE OF APPLICATION AND VALIDITY
B           CONCEPT OF CLEAN PRODUCTION
C           ENVIRONMENT
3           Design and Setup
3.1        Measures and Recommendations – Constructive
3.1.1     Classifying Cleanliness Areas
3.1.2     Selecting the Cleanliness Level (CL)
3.1.3     Local Cleanliness Areas
3.1.4     Setup Plan (Layout)
3.1.5     Materials and Surfaces
3.1.6     Floor, Ceiling, Wall
3.1.7     Doors, Gates, Sluices, Accesses, Windows
3.1.8     Passageways and Parking Spaces
3.1.9     Supply Engineering/Installations
3.2        Measures and Recommendations – Operative
3.2.1     Accompanying/Supplemental Measures
3.2.2     Contamination Control
3.2.3     Personnel
4          Metrological Recording of the Environmental Effect
D          LOGISTICS
2.1        Packaging
2.2        Logistic Processes
3          Design and Setup
3.1       Constructive Measures
3.1.1    Packaging
3.2       Operative Measures
3.2.1    Cleaning Packaging
3.2.2    Inspecting Packaging Materials
3.2.3    Responsibilities – Determining Packaging
3.2.4    Transport and Sluice Concept
3.2.5     Storage
3.2.6     Unpacking and Commissioning
E          PERSONNEL
3          Qualification and Apparel
3.1       Measures and Recommendations – Conceptual
3.1.1    Training with an Emphasis on Assembly Cleanliness
3.1.2    Apparel
3.1.3    Basic Rules
3.1.4    Logistics
3.1.5    Contamination Control in the Working Area
3.2       Flanking Measures and Considerations
3.2.1    Mixing Processes
3.2.2    Carryover from Touching
3.2.3    The Worker as a Particle Source and Remover
3.2.4    Examples of Typical Risks of Contamination
F          ASSEMBLY EQUIPMENT
3          Design and Setup
3.1       Measures and Recommendations – Constructive
3.2       Measures and Recommendations – Operative
G         MEASURING CLEANLINESS EFFECTS
2.1       Metrology
2.2       Execution
2.3       Documentation
3          Cleanliness of Surfaces
3.1       Metrology
3.2       Execution
3.3       Documentation
4          Cleanliness of Liquids
4.1       Test Setup
4.2       Execution
5          Cleanliness of Assembly Processes
5.1       Metrology
5.2       Execution
5.3       Documentation

For many years now, we at TopQM Systems have been advising and auditing large-scale German OEMs and their suppliers concerning fulfillment of the requirements according to VDA Vol. 19.1, VDA Vol. 19 part 2 (VDA 19.2), and ISO 16232.

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