Catalog Standards (ACES)
ACES is the Industry Standard for the management and exchange of automotive catalog and vehicle data. With ACES, suppliers can publish automotive data with standard coded designations for vehicle attributes, parts classifications and qualifier statements. ACES provides a machine-readable format (XML) for trading partners to use in exchanging vast amounts of information. The ACES Vehicle Configuration Database (VCdb) is updated monthly and available only on a subscription basis from AAIA. The Qualifier Database and parts Classification Database are updated as needed.
The ACES specification and database design is updated annually to include features and functions required by the aftermarket industry.Click Here to download the ACES 2006 documentation. The archive includes the Data delivery Specification ver 2.0; the Vehicle Configuration Database (VCdb) ER diagram, VCdb Field Definitions; XML files; the Qualifier Database (Qdb) ER diagram and approved Abbreviations.
The major changes reflected in ACES 2006 are the addition of a coded Qualifier database (Qdb) for standardized comments, footnotes and qualifier statements; full validation of all vehicle attributes for 1985 and later models in the Vehicle Configuration database (VCdb); and the addition of components to support multiple Units of Measure and multilingual descriptions and qualifiers.
Subscribers to ACES may download all of the database components – including the ACES 2006 version of the VCdb and the new Qualifier database (Qdb) – from the download center at www.enhancedstandard.com
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Subscribers may login to the ACES Collaborative Interface and Download Center at http://www.enhancedstandard.com/ using the login information supplied by AAIA
Guests (Non-subscribers) are welcome to view (no download permitted) the data found in the VCDB through the ACES online interface. Navigate to http://www.enhancedstandard.com/ and click GUEST |
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