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

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