10560-2010-12-EN

DateMarkingVehiclePartsPreviousissuesVW10560:1980-12,1991-12,2000-12,2007-12ChangesThefollowingchangeshavebeenmadecomparedwithVW10560:2007-12:–Section2,paragraph2:textshortened–Table6,typeKextended–Section5.2,Table9added–Section5.3,partiallyencoded4-and5-digittypesPandRadded–Section6.1,Datemarkingforvehicleglazingcorrected:wastypeL–Section6.2revisedContentsPageScope.........................................................................................................................2Requirements.............................................................................................................2Datemarkingusingsymbols......................................................................................2Dateofmanufacturing(month,year).........................................................................2Dategrid(monthandyear)........................................................................................4Datemarking(uncoded).............................................................................................4Week,year(uncoded)................................................................................................4Shift,day,week,year.................................................................................................4Shift,day,week,year(doublestamp)........................................................................4Datemarking(encodedandpartiallyencoded).........................................................5Single-digittype..........................................................................................................5Month.........................................................................................................................51233.13.244.14.24.355.15.1.1GroupStandardVW10560Issue2010-12Class.No.:01152Descriptors:datemarking,partsmarking,dateofmanufactureVerifythatyouhavethelatestissueoftheStandardbeforerelyingonit.ThiselectronicallygeneratedStandardisauthenticandvalidwithoutsignature.TheEnglishtranslationisbelievedtobeaccurate.Incaseofdiscrepancies,theGermanversionisaloneauthoritativeandcontrolling.Numericalnotationacc.toISOconvention.Page1of10TechnicalresponsibilityStandardsDepartmentEKDV/4Hans-JürgenKühnTel.:[phone]EKDV/4Hans-JürgenKühnEKDVTel.:[phone]ManfredTerlindenConfidential.Allrightsreserved.NopartofthisdocumentmaybeprovidedtothirdpartiesorreproducedwithoutthepriorconsentoftheStandardsDepartmentofaVolkswagenGroupmember.ThisStandardisavailabletocontractingpartiessolelyviatheB2Bsupplierplatform©VolkswagenAktiengesellschaftVWNORM-2010-08eYear............................................................................................................................5Two-digittype(year,month)......................................................................................5Four-andfive-digittype:year,calendarweek,dayoftheweek,shift.......................7Datemarkingforspecialcases..................................................................................8Datemarkingforvehicleglazing................................................................................8DatemarkingforSLIbatteries...................................................................................9Week,year(formationdate).......................................................................................9Datemarkingforengineandtransmissioncontrolunits............................................9Day,month,year........................................................................................................9Shift,day,month,year...............................................................................................9Drawingspecification...............................................................................................10Otherapplicabledocuments....................................................................................105.1.25.25.366.16.26.2.16.36.3.16.3.278ScopeThisstandardspecifiesthemarkingofvehicleparts,whichmustcarryadatemarkingprovingthedateofmanufacture–inordertocomplywithofficialregulations,–inordertoallowsortingaccordingtodateofmanufacture,or–inordertoallowretracingofcustomercomplaints(retraceabilityofparts).ExamplesaregiveninTable11)toTable12andinFigure1toFigure7.RequirementsAdatemarkingasspecifiedinthisstandardmustbeappliedtoeachvehiclepart.Whetherdatemarkingisnecessaryornotmustbespecifiedonthedrawing(seetextmacroNO-E2inVolkswagenstandardVW01014,Figure7).Thisappliesalsotothesizeandpositionofthemark‐ing.Itmustbeensuredthatthemarkingremainslegibleovertheservicelifeofthepart.Themarkingmustbeappliedtothepartsinapermanentandnon-removablemannerusingsuitablemanufacturingmethods,e.g.embossing,stamping,electricdischargemachining,casting.TypefaceH(medium-spacedlettering)acc.toDIN1451-4istobeusedforthemarkings.Ifrequired,therespectivemanufacturingmethod,e.g.,cast,etched,embossed,stampedorelectricdis‐chargemachinedmustbespecifiedinthedrawing.Ifthereisnosuchspecificationinthedrawin