Standards relevant to technical documentation – July 2025

Withdrawal announced: VDI 4500 Sheet 6 on technical documentation In June 2025, it was officially announced that Part 6 of VDI Guideline 4500 ("Technical Documentation - Documentation Process - Publishing") is to be withdrawn. The guideline is considered technically outdated and no longer meets the current requirements for modern documentation processes. However, the withdrawal [...]

Standards with relevance for technical documentation - May to October 2019

Issue date: May 2019 DIN EN ISO/IEC 17000 Conformity assessment - Terminology and general principles A new draft of DIN EN ISO/IEC 17000 on the subject of conformity assessment was published in May. The standard deals with both the terminology for conformity assessment and a description of the functional approach to conformity assessment. It can be used for the legally regulated [...]

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