VEC Implementation Guidelines
The VDA recommendation 4968 “Vehicle Electric Container (VEC)” defines an information model, a data dictionary, and an XML schema derived from and compliant to the model.The intention of the model was to cover a wide range of use cases and application scenarios. For this reason the specification had to be kept generic in some degree and in some aspects. However, for specific scenarios and / or use cases a more detailed description on “how the different pieces fit together” is possible.
To avoid dialects in the different VEC implementations, further guidelines or recommendations are necessary. This collection of implementation guidelines contributes to the unambiguous interpretation of the VEC standard. For various wiring harness definition or electrical system aspects and scenarios the correct instantiation is shown and specific hints for correct usage are given.
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Currently Under Review
The following table contains pages currently under review.Title | Latest Content Addition / Commit | Created | Changed |
Composite Parts | KBLFRM-1059: Harness & Configurations in the VEC Latest Commit: Typo corrected |
2021-03-01 | 2022-04-27 |
Tailoring Mechanisms | KBLFRM-1057: Included Tailoring Concept for custom XSD 1.1 Assertions Latest Commit: KBLFRM-1057: Include ARENA2036 Dataprofile Assertions Concept |
2020-10-21 | 2022-02-11 |
Coupling Devices | KBLFRM-600: Improved Implementation Guideline for coupling devices (and extracted to a separate page) Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2022-02-09 | 2022-02-10 |
Wiring | KBLFRM-896: Add description for traceability to System Schematic Connections for directly mated E/E Components Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2019-03-07 | 2022-02-10 |
System Schematic | KBLFRM-1135: Added Implementation Guideline for explicit potential distributors in the schematic context Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2019-03-11 | 2022-02-10 |
Latest Changes
The following table contains lately changed pages, sorted descending by last change.Title | Latest Content Addition / Commit | Created | Changed |
Composite Parts | KBLFRM-1059: Harness & Configurations in the VEC Latest Commit: Typo corrected |
2021-03-01 | 2022-04-27 |
VEC Implementation Guidelines | Latest Commit: Published VEC Version 2.0.0 | 2022-03-09 | 2022-03-09 |
Electrological Layers | KBLFRM-1134: Added overview for electrological layers Latest Commit: Review disclaimer removed |
2021-11-16 | 2022-03-01 |
Usage Nodes | KBLFRM-790: Added examples for the use of sub usage nodes Latest Commit: Review disclaimer removed |
2019-11-06 | 2022-03-01 |
Accessories | KBLFRM-1095: Added examples for the interpretation of the ReferenceElement association in case of multiple ReferenceElements Latest Commit: Review disclaimer removed |
2019-03-11 | 2022-03-01 |
Wires | KBLFRM-953: Complete restructuring of the guideline according to comments in the review of KBLFRM-953. Clarification of the guideline for layering of wire elements in multicore. Integration of additional samples. Latest Commit: Review disclaimer removed |
2019-03-07 | 2022-03-01 |
Tailoring Mechanisms | KBLFRM-1057: Included Tailoring Concept for custom XSD 1.1 Assertions Latest Commit: KBLFRM-1057: Include ARENA2036 Dataprofile Assertions Concept |
2020-10-21 | 2022-02-11 |
Coupling Devices | KBLFRM-600: Improved Implementation Guideline for coupling devices (and extracted to a separate page) Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2022-02-09 | 2022-02-10 |
Wiring | KBLFRM-896: Add description for traceability to System Schematic Connections for directly mated E/E Components Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2019-03-07 | 2022-02-10 |
System Schematic | KBLFRM-1135: Added Implementation Guideline for explicit potential distributors in the schematic context Latest Commit: KBLFRM-600: Improved Guideline for Coupling Devices. |
2019-03-11 | 2022-02-10 |