DIN EN 13262:2011-06

Normative documents (UIC leaflets, national standards) which have been used until now in Europe for the delivery of wheels were primarily focused on a complete description of the acceptance procedures and the wheel characteristics that had to be measured. Although some aspects for product qualification were taken into account, no information was given about the product qualification procedures and the product characteristics to be tested during qualification, however. This standard deals with these aspects as follows: a) definition of all wheel characteristics. They are tested during the qualification or delivery of the product; b) definition of the qualification procedures; c) definition of the delivery conditions whereby a choice is given to the supplier of: - a traditional delivery procedure with a control by batch sampling as in existing documents, or - a delivery procedure using quality assurance concepts. This standard describes the wheel product qualification; the technical approval procedure is not within the scope of this standard. Furthermore, this standard contains Amendment A2 which serves for adaptation of the new Directive 2008/57/EC on interoperability to the body of standards.