scope:

After selecting the appropriate vacuum coating for the application at hand (cf. VDI 3823 Part 1), and considering the demands on the plastic parts to be coated (cf. VDI 3823 Part 2), further necessary requirements for successful quality management in the vacuum coating of plastics will be summarized in VDI 3823 Part 3. These minimum requirements with regard to the organization of production are related to the organization of "coating services".

In such services the actual process of vacuum coating represents only one of the production steps that determines the final quality. The quality will also be decisively determined by numerous tasks and processes that take place before and after coating.