Help suppliers find more global parts applications.

Provide information that helps improve quality of parts cross information.

Reduce inventory and manufacturing costs by allowing more effective global parts application and look-up.

Reduce time to market on new offerings by speeding product line development.

Using this information, the company says the tool can: The new P2VC Data Translation Aid addresses this problem by providing cross-reference information suggestions to the cataloging specialist for each part number that dramatically shortcuts the manual process for a given application.

In fact, there can be a range of values that could match, requiring added information to be available for reaching the proper conclusion regarding parts application to vehicles, or implying a wider range of applications available. These differences between the standards mean that the primary guide nomenclature of the two standards (that is, the Base Vehicle ID in ACES and KTypes in TecDoc) do not necessarily cross from one vehicle in one standard to one vehicle in the other standard. In simplest terms, ACES is a year, make and model lookup, represented by a “Base Vehicle ID” number, while TecDoc uses model year ranges and other vehicle attributes, represented by “K-type” numbers, to identify specific vehicles. The translation of ACES to TecDoc, and visa versa, can be a large task owing to the different ways in which the two data standards handle vehicle identification, according to the company.

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