Verband der Automobilindustrie

The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA ) is an unincorporated association with its headquarters in Berlin and the common association of the German automotive manufacturers and suppliers. The association was founded in 1901 as the Association of German Motor Vehicle Manufacturers ( VDMI ), renamed in 1923 in Reich Association of the Automotive Industry ( RDA) and since 1946 Association of the Automotive Industry is called.

History

The VDMI (German Motor Vehicle Manufacturers) was founded on January 19, 1901 in Eisenach. The founding members were:

  • Gustav Vischer Daimler engines Cannstatt,
  • Baron Eugène de Dietrich of Dietrich Co. Niederbronn in Alsace,
  • Heinrich Kleyer of the Adler bicycle works in Frankfurt am Main,
  • Gustav Ehrhardt of the Eisenach car factory,
  • Willy Tischbein Conti rubber in Hannover,
  • Moritz Hille Hille of the plants in Dresden,
  • Wilhelm von Opel Opel Rüsselsheim,
  • Karl Fichtel of Fichtel & Sachs in Schweinfurt and
  • Gustav friend of the Automotive Technology Society.

First Chairman of the VDMI was Gustav Vischer and Eugène de Dietrich his deputy.

The VDMI advocated for the promotion of road traffic, entered against onerous regulatory actions and customs protection and control of motor shows.

In 1923, the club name was changed to National Association of the Automotive Industry ( RDA). Another name change took place on May 2, 1946. Since then, the club is called Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

The VDA today

In public, the VDA is known as the organizer of the annual International Motor Show ( IAA). It takes place alternately in Frankfurt (cars ) and Hannover ( commercial vehicles) instead. The primary responsibilities of the VDA, the advocacy, exchange of views between the members and the development of standards such as recommendations for logistical process of industrial enterprises or the de facto standard for EDI in the German automotive industry.

The VDA is an associate member of the Association of European Automobile Manufacturers ACEA and Member of the European Association of Automotive Suppliers CLEPA.

Furthermore, the VDA founding member of the European non-profit organizations ENX and Odette, who perceive standardization tasks in the field of cross-company cooperation in the automotive industry.

President and management

President of the VDA is since 1 June 2007, the former Minister of Transport Matthias Wissmann. Managing Director of the VDA Klaus Bräunig, Ulrich Eichhorn and Kay Lindemann. Klaus Bräunig is responsible for the fundamental issues of the association and for the areas of supplier industries, medium-sized, aftermarket, exhibitions, taxes and duties, law and insurance, as well as personnel and finance. Dr. Ulrich Eichhorn is responsible for the technical, safety, environmental protection, energy, labor safety, hazardous materials, research, standardization, quality management, logistics and Historic Cars. Dr. Kay Lindemann is responsible for economic policy issues, markets, climate change, commercial vehicles, transport policy, European policy and in-house communication.

VDA recommendations (standards ) for EDI

Today, virtually everyone is a German automobile manufacturer and thus all medium and large suppliers EDI, with the requirements of almost all automobile manufacturers break through the original basic norms of the VDA. In the wake of globalization, the German companies make more and more to EDIFACT. The VDA is, however, also trying to standardize, to be used only after certain types of EDIFACT messages. Exploiting the entire possibilities of the EDIFACT messages would again lead to a drifting apart and counteract the standardization of data exchange. Since 2011, there are activities to develop a series of new VDA subsets based Global EDIFACT message formats for the area of ​​logistics. The aim is to achieve a high degree of standardization for EDIFACT formats modeled after the VDA 4938.

VDA publications

The VDA publishes a number of publications that can be found on the VDA website under Publications / Orders & Downloads. These include:

  • Annual Reports
  • VDA Policy Brief
  • VDA Recommendations
  • FAT Series
  • Statistics
  • Datasheets
  • VDA test sheets
  • VDA Material Specifications
  • VDA series
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