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February 7, 2025
Why Quality Data is Crucial for Commercial Vehicles and On-Highway Trucks
Your team is back from Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week (HDAW). They are pumped to sell more products. They are asking if we have ACES® and PIES® for our products as they were asked if they have our products using these standards.
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January 7, 2025
API is Here!
The Auto Care Association’s ACES®, PIES® and IPO™ reference databases (VCdb, Qdb, PCdb, PAdb, and Brand Table) currently and historically have been available to users for download through a manual download process via autocarevip.com in various formats, including Microsoft Access2007, ASCII, MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer2008R2, and JSON.
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August 18, 2023
Vehicle Configuration Database (VCdb) Coverage Update
If you’ve ever thought the standards team here at the Auto Care Association is satisfied with the speed of delivery and the data content being provided in the Vehicle Configuration database (VCdb), we’re here to tell you otherwise!
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August 11, 2023
Top Mistakes You May be Making in Your ACES and PIES Files
Over twenty years ago, Auto Care started to publish the VCdb, PCdb, brand table and Qdb databases which enable the industry to have a common communication method to transmit vehicle, part and qualifier data between trading partners. This content expanded with the PAdb to provide product attributes.
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April 24, 2023
Communifire is moving!
We wanted to continue to provide a one-stop location for the content, events, conversations, and projects by providing a closer connection to the data within autocarevip.com. This has us moving the features that you have come to expect in communifire which will be incorporated into the autocarevip.com site.
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April 10, 2023
The Scoop on the “Loop” in PIES™
PIES™️ standardizes not only the field definitions and requirements, but also standardizes the delivery mechanism used to transfer the information provided in PIES™️ XML files. It is designed in a flexible format, which allows you to “loop” (repeat) elements within a segment element group, as many times needed to meet data delivery requirements. Learn how looping occurs and more in this article.
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January 23, 2023
Resolutions, Real-time Data and Release Notes
We are excited to provide these new enhancements! We hope these will help you with accessing the latest content quickly so you can sell more parts. Release notes can be found at autocarevip.com. A list of publication dates will be added to the release notes. If you have any questions, contact the Auto Care Standards team at technology@autocare.org.
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November 28, 2022
Leveraging the PIES Interchange Segment
PIES Interchange Segment can help the manufacturer provide its part numbers connected to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) part numbers and other aftermarket part numbers that are similar.
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August 26, 2022
VCdb Expands to Four New Latin America Countries
This month, we will highlight four new Latin American countries that we started offering vehicle data for in the VCdb. In the coming months as research is completed, new vehicles for these countries will be added to the Latin America VCdb. The latest vehicles were added to the Latin America VCdb for the following countries: Bolivia Dominican Republic Guatemala Panama
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July 28, 2022
Auto Care Association Expanding ACES and PIES Reach in Peru, Ecuador
During a time when the global aftermarket industry is facing unprecedented challenges, data becomes critical to stay current and succeed in the global marketplace. In North America, businesses in the automotive aftermarket benefit from industry-developed data standards ACES and PIES, which enable companies to be more efficient in communicating product information with their trading partners.
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I help reduce cost out of the overall supply chain by improving the quality of standards data we provide to the industry and develop new processes that help get data to our members faster.
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