This is the place for all information about the standardization activities of the prostep ivip Association and the VDA in the field of wiring harness development and electrical systems design.
You will find here all specifications and recommendations published by the joint Project Group VES-WF together with additional background information, implementation guidelines and examples. Furthermore the ECAD Wiki is a source for articles dedicated to engineering processes and methods in the electrical system development and their related technologies.
If you find a bug, have a feature request or if you want to participate in the improvement and development process, then see here how you can contribute.
What is the difference between KBL and VEC? Why should I use the VEC? What are the benefits? Do I really need it? This whitepaper tries to provide fact based information about the …
We are thrilled to announce a significant enhancement in the publication of the Vehicle Electric Container (VEC) model! In addition to the traditional XML Schema format, from now on we are releasing the VEC model as an OWL 2 ontology and a corresponding SHACL Schema.
Today we are proud to announce public availability of VEC 2.0.0. This is the next major step towards a consistent and complete model of the physical network of vehicles and the associated data.
Due to a nasty bug in the VEC V1.2.0 Model we had to make a bug fix release. The TopologyZoneSpecification was missing its inheritance relationship to Specification. This rendered the TopologyZoneSpecification unusable, as only Specifications are contained in a DocumentVersion and in consequence in the resulting XML document. Additional the TopologyZoneAssignment has a recursive self-reference which makes its instantiation impossible as well. All VEC V1.2.0 are fully compatible with the VEC V1.2.2 schema since the fixed element could not be used anyways.
The model description and the release notes can be found here.
We have added a new section Sample Files to the ECAD-WIKI and migrated the sample files which have already been available in the old ECAD-WIKI.
We are currently working on making more sample data available in WIKI. You can help us with this. If you have sample data of a VEC or KBL implementation that can be made publicly available, we would be happy if you would provide us with it. For more information please see our contribution guidelines.
We just released the first service release for KBL Version 2.5.
This release just contains some bug fixes and a minor feature improvement. Please refer to the model description and the release notes, which can be found here. As this is just a service release, there will be no update / republication of the recommendation document.
In 2024, the VEC Day will take place in a new setting and at a new location. In cooperation with the prostep ivip association, ARENA2036 is organising ‘Bordnetze Digital - The …
The 4-hour webinar offers an introduction to the VEC and its many possibilities. In the first part, the motivation and the business case of the VEC as an open standard will be …
The VES-WF is an association of companies that are active in the field of wiring harness design and manufacturing. The objective with regard to a model-based development process is …
The ECAD-IF is an association of tool manufacturers and vendors that implement the standards published by the VES-WF. The objective is to support implementation projects and to …