Standards and Regulations

Standards and Regulations Register

What each standard covers, when it applies, and where companies trip up in practice.

Materials and Certificates

Cutting, Machining and Manufacturing Tolerances

Armour, Coating and Defense Materiel

Welding and Joining

Management Systems and Procurement

Non-Destructive Testing and Personnel Qualification

Bonding

NATO Quality Assurance (AQAP)

Ballistic Resistance and Test Levels

Export Control, Security Clearance and Law

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Standards and Regulations Register

Materials and Certificates

Hot-rolled steel plates 3 mm thick and above – Tolerances on dimensions and shape

Continuously hot-rolled strip and plate/sheet cut from wide strip

Cold-rolled uncoated and zinc or zinc-nickel electrolytically coated low carbon and high yield strength steel flat products

Delivery requirements for surface condition of hot-rolled steel plates, wide flats and sections – Repaired areas

Metallic products – Types of inspection documents

Metallic materials – Brinell hardness test – Part 1: Test method

Metallic materials – Tensile testing – Part 1: Method of test at room temperature

Metallic materials – Charpy pendulum impact test – Part 1: Test method

Cutting, Machining and Manufacturing Tolerances

Thermal cutting – Classification of thermal cuts – Geometrical product specification and quality tolerances

General tolerances for machined features

Geometrical product specifications (GPS) – Fundamentals – Concepts, principles and rules

Armour, Coating and Defense Materiel

Paints and varnishes – Corrosion protection of steel structures by protective paint systems – Part 4: Types of surface and surface preparation

Material and company approval for armour material

Armoured housings – Design, manufacture and testing

Armour aluminium

Coating materials for defense materiel

Overarching requirements for surface protection

Defense equipment standard for camouflage paints

Welding and Joining

Welding – Guidelines for a metallic material grouping system

Welding – General tolerances for welded constructions – Dimensions for lengths and angles – Shape and position

Welding and allied processes – Quality requirements for manufacturing and repair companies producing defense technology products

Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials – Part 2: Comprehensive quality requirements

Quality requirements for resistance welding

Welding coordination – Tasks and responsibilities

Qualification testing of welders – Fusion welding

Welding personnel – Qualification testing of welding operators and weld setters for mechanized and automatic welding of metallic materials

Approval of welding procedures and procedure qualifications

Welding – Fusion-welded joints in steel, nickel, titanium and their alloys (beam welding excluded) – Quality levels for imperfections

Welding – Arc-welded joints in aluminium and its alloys – Quality levels for imperfections

Non-destructive testing of welds – Visual testing of fusion-welded joints

Welding – Calibration, verification and validation of equipment used for welding, including ancillary activities

Welding and allied processes – Nomenclature of processes and reference numbers

DVS guidance sheets on welding, referenced in DIN 2303

Welding – Recommendations for welding of metallic materials – Part 2: Arc welding of ferritic steels

Management Systems and Procurement

Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes – Part 1: Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection

Government quality assurance under the Contract Award Rules for Services, Part B

Supplementary contract conditions of the Federal Ministry of Defense to the VOL/B

Quality management systems – Requirements

Environmental management systems – Requirements with guidance for use

Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use, formerly OHSAS 18001

Energy management systems – Requirements with guidance for use

Information security management systems – Requirements

Quality management – Guidelines for configuration management

Conformity assessment – Supplier's declaration of conformity

Quality management systems for aviation, space and defense organisations

Quality management system for the automotive industry

Railway applications – Welding of railway vehicles and components

Execution of steel structures and aluminium structures

Documentation and archiving / Process audit of the automotive industry

Non-Destructive Testing and Personnel Qualification

Thermal spraying – Qualification testing of thermal sprayers

Brazing – Qualification test of brazers

Non-destructive testing – Qualification and certification of NDT personnel

Aerospace series – Qualification and approval of personnel for non-destructive testing

General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories

Conformity assessment – General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons

Bonding

Bonding and allied processes – Quality requirements for manufacturing and repair companies producing military products

Adhesive bonding technology – Quality requirements for bonding processes – Part 1: Principles

Bonding of railway vehicles and related components

Adhesives – Guidelines for bonding technology

NATO Quality Assurance (AQAP)

Mutual acceptance of government quality assurance and usage of the allied quality assurance publications

NATO quality assurance policy

NATO guidance on the use of the AQAP 2000 series

NATO mutual government quality assurance process

NATO requirements for quality management plans

NATO quality assurance requirements for design, development and production

NATO quality assurance requirements for production

NATO quality assurance requirements for inspection and test

NATO quality assurance requirements for final inspection

NATO supplementary software quality assurance requirements

NATO quality management system requirements for aviation, space and defense suppliers, based on EN 9100

Ballistic Resistance and Test Levels