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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Additional Resources
Currently Under Review
The following table contains pages currently under review.| Title | Latest Content Addition / Commit | Created | Changed |
| Pinning | KBLFRM-586: Added explanations for PinComponentBehavior and SignalDirections & PinComponentTypes. Latest Commit: Corrected wrong header indentation. |
2019-03-11 | 2023-11-10 |
| Wires | KBLFRM-1214: Added a section about wire length, wire ends, stripping and cutting. Latest Commit: KBLFRM-1214 Added Impl.-Guideline for cutting & stripping of multi-cores. |
2019-03-07 | 2023-11-07 |
| Coupling | KBLFRM-609: Guideline covering all aspects of a coupling Latest Commit: Updated "under review" information. |
2021-03-01 | 2023-10-26 |
Latest Changes
The following table contains lately changed pages, sorted descending by last change.| Title | Latest Content Addition / Commit | Created | Changed |
| Pinning | KBLFRM-586: Added explanations for PinComponentBehavior and SignalDirections & PinComponentTypes. Latest Commit: Corrected wrong header indentation. |
2019-03-11 | 2023-11-10 |
| Wires | KBLFRM-1214: Added a section about wire length, wire ends, stripping and cutting. Latest Commit: KBLFRM-1214 Added Impl.-Guideline for cutting & stripping of multi-cores. |
2019-03-07 | 2023-11-07 |
| Coupling | KBLFRM-609: Guideline covering all aspects of a coupling Latest Commit: Updated "under review" information. |
2021-03-01 | 2023-10-26 |
| Grommets | KBLFRM-854: Direction-Aware Placement of Grommets Latest Commit: Updated "under review" information. |
2019-03-11 | 2023-10-25 |
| Splices | KBLFRM-855: Splice: Number of wires from the left / number of wires from the right Latest Commit: Updated "under review" information. |
2022-11-09 | 2023-10-25 |
| Wiring | KBLFRM-609: Move coupling to the section 'product definition' Latest Commit: KBLFRM-609/KBLFRM-1212: Added new implementation guideline für Coupling and Mapping |
2019-03-07 | 2023-10-24 |
| External References | KBLFRM-1046: Added Guideline for External References Latest Commit: Removed review tags and added whitepaper pdf version. |
2022-08-25 | 2022-12-16 |
| Expected Behaviour of VEC Interfaces | KBLFRM-946: Added Guideline for Import- / Export-Behaviour Latest Commit: Removed review tags and added whitepaper pdf version. |
2022-07-29 | 2022-12-16 |
| Description of Components Types | KBLFRM-1038: New Implementation Guideline for PartUsages & PartOccurences Latest Commit: Removed review tags and added whitepaper pdf version. |
2022-09-01 | 2022-12-16 |
| Product Definition of a Harness | KBLFRM-1038: New Implementation Guideline for PartUsages & PartOccurences Latest Commit: Removed review tags and added whitepaper pdf version. |
2022-09-01 | 2022-12-16 |