News

VEC Model published as Web Ontology
🚀 Exciting News from the VEC Team! 🚀 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.
Last updated on Jun 5, 2024
VEC 2.0.0 released
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.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
VEC 1.2.2 released

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.

Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
New section "Sample Files" published in the ECAD-WIKI
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.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
KBL 2.5-SR1 & Implementation Guidlines released
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.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
VEC 1.2.0 released
Despite the Corona Lockdown we were very active in the last weeks. The results of this work are now becoming visible step by step. After we already launched the ECAD Wiki in a completely new look a few weeks ago, we can now proudly announce that the VEC 1.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
Volkswagen KBL documentation updated
Now with detailed description of the usage of the KBL element B_spline_curve
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
VEC Implementation Guidelines republished

From now on the Implementation Guidelines are published in different format and with a changed release process.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
KBL 2.5 released

This version incorporates the results of the harmonization activities and eliminates various dialects.
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023
VEC 1.1.3 released!

This version brings features in the area of electrical design (especially new semantics for the 3 layers (Net, Connection, and Wiring Specification).
Last updated on Feb 1, 2023