Decisions made by default
Version, optional fields, actions and error handling get settled by whoever implements first, not agreed on purpose. Undoing that later means touching working code on both sides.
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Starting a VDA5050 project? Get the interface right from the first decisions: the version, the optional fields, the factsheet and the acceptance. Settling them too late is what forces the costly changes and rewrites later. Training brings the team up to speed, coaching applies it to your own project.
Why start here
The expensive VDA5050 mistakes are made before the first vehicle arrives
By the time a vehicle stops at a node during commissioning, the decision that caused it was usually taken months earlier, often without anyone deciding it on purpose. A team that understands the interface early makes those calls deliberately and writes them down while they still cost nothing to change.
A version chosen blind
VDA5050 1.1, 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 3.0 renamed fields, moved sections and added concepts. Picking one without knowing the differences locks in rework the moment a second vehicle type joins.
Acceptance written too late
If the interface criteria are drafted after the vehicles are on site, there is nothing firm to accept against. Every fault then turns into a negotiation instead of a test.
What you gain
A team that can hold the conversation, and decisions on record before they cost anything
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People who can challenge a vendor
Your engineers and project leads understand the protocol well enough to question an answer, not just accept it. That changes every meeting with a vehicle manufacturer or fleet-controller vendor.
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Decisions agreed on purpose, early
Version, optional fields, actions, error handling and factsheet content settled deliberately and in writing, before they are built into anything.
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A tender and acceptance that hold
The VDA5050 section written so proposals can be compared and the interface can be accepted against it, not argued over later.
What we cover
From the protocol to the decisions your project has to make
The modules are chosen to fit where your project stands. A team new to VDA5050 starts at the top; one already mid-project starts wherever the open questions are.
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VDA5050 in one picture
The roles, the MQTT topics, order, state and the factsheet, so the whole team shares one mental model of how a vehicle and a fleet controller talk.
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The versions and what changed
1.1, 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 3.0 side by side: renamed fields, moved sections and the traps that appear when a mixed fleet carries several versions at once.
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The decisions to make early
Version, mandatory and optional fields, supported actions, error reporting and what the factsheet has to declare. These are the choices that are cheap now and expensive later.
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LIF and M2X
The VDMA LIF layout the fleet controller works from, plus the M2X interface to doors, lifts and charging stations. The whole integration is in view, not just the vehicle link.
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A tender the interface can be accepted against
How to write the VDA5050 section of a functional tender so proposals compare cleanly and the result can be tested and accepted.
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Reading a recording
How to tell conformance from assumption in the actual MQTT traffic: the message, the field and what the specification says about it.
Format and collaboration
Training to learn it, coaching to apply it
Booked as a single workshop or as coaching that runs alongside the project. The sessions use your own tender, factsheets and layout wherever possible, so the team learns on the material it actually has to decide.
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Scoping call
Where the project stands, who is in the room and which decisions are still open. The sessions are tailored to that.
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Foundations workshop
The protocol, the versions and the decisions, remote or on site. The shared mental model the rest builds on.
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Coaching on your project
Applied to your real tender, factsheets and interface, with me alongside as the decisions are made and written down.
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Review
The decisions checked against the specification before they are locked in, with the open items and who owns them.
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Where this comes from
The specification, read field by field
LogistiXpert develops LogIQ VDA5050, a software platform that checks VDA5050 traffic against the specification. Building it meant reading every version of the specification and its schemas down to the field. The errors we found in the official documents and schemas are reported to the VDA5050 project on GitHub and published on the documents page. The training passes that reading on.
Independent of the vendors
No ties to vehicle manufacturers or fleet-controller vendors. The specification is the reference, not either party's implementation.
From practice, not slides
The examples come from real recordings and real integrations; the coaching works on your own project rather than a generic case.
LogIQ VDA5050 is my product
In coaching I read a recording with the Analyzer. Whether your project licenses LogIQ VDA5050 is your decision. The training doesn't depend on it.
VDA5050 training and coaching
About to start a VDA5050 project?
Tell me where the project stands and I'll tailor the sessions to it. The first conversation costs nothing.
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