As part of wiring harness development, electrical components and system information needed to be exchanged between various tools and organizations. Different data formats and proprietary interfaces – including those between Siemens Capital and PREEvision – complicated data exchange, resulted in redundancies, and increased effort in coordination as well as quality assurance.
The goal of the project was to create a unified, vendor-neutral interface solution that simplifies data exchange and ensures its long-term stability.
The focus was on:
The Vehicle Electrical Container (VEC) was implemented as the central foundation to structure electrical system data in a unified way and make it usable across systems.
The implemented VEC interface led to significant improvements in day-to-day engineering work:
