nkter haftung industry software founded 1 april 1988 headquarters stuttgart germany key people managing directors 1 dr. thomas beck thomas riegraf products canalyzer canoe canape candelastudio preevision revenue 171 million eur 2013 2 268 million eur vector group worldwide 2014 3 number of employees 1330 vector group worldwide 2015 3 website vector.com main building of the headquarters of vector informatik gmbh vector informatik develops software tools and components for networking of electronic systems based on the serial bus systems can lin flexray most ethernet afdx arinc 429 4 and sae j1708 as well as on can based protocols such as sae j1939 sae j1587 iso 11783 nmea 2000 arinc 825 4 canaerospace 4 canopen and more . the headquarters of the company vector informatik gmbh is in stuttgart germany . subsidiaries include braunschweig munich hamburg regensburg along with international subsidiaries in brazil china france italy england india japan south korea austria sweden and the usa . vector informatik also includes vector consulting services gmbh a consultation firm specializing in optimization of technical product development . altogether these companies are referred to as the vector group . contents 1 history 2 fields of activity 3 products 4 references history edit vector software gmbh was founded on april 1 1988 by eberhard hinderer martin litschel and helmut schelling . in the year 1992 the company changed its name to vector informatik gmbh . in the same year the first canalyzer license was sold and the company attained sales of one million euros for the first time . in 1996 the first canoe and canape licenses were sold . in 1998 vector cantech usa was founded and in the following year vector japan . in 2001 the subsidiary vector consulting gmbh was founded which offers consultation services for engineering development and its cost effectiveness . in 2006 vector informatik acquired division 4m software from micron electronic devices ag . in the same year sales of the vector group exceeded the 100 million euro mark for the first time . in the following year vector korea was founded and in 2009 vector great britain vector informatik india and vector china . 5 2011 the previous representation office in china was converted into a legally independent business . 6 in august 2011 the four owners of vector informatik gmbh have transferred their business shares to a family foundation and a non profit foundation . 7 in september 2011 vector has welcomed its 1 000th employee . 8 in 2013 a new subsidiary vector austria was established 9 followed 2014 by vector brasil and vector italy . 10 11 fields of activity edit as mentioned above vector handles networking of electronic systems based on the serial bus systems can lin flexray and most as well as can based protocols such as sae j1939 and canopen . electronic control modules in vehicles are clearly the company s focus . however experience gained in this area has also been applied to other areas such as avionics 4 heavy duty vehicles special machines and embedded systems in general . a selection of press releases provides additional background diagnostic validation with gm 12 autosar pdus with flexray at audi 13 optimizing driver assistance systems at bmw 14 xcp on flexray at audi 15 efficiency and quality in gear drive calibration at zf 16 wireless interfacing of development and analysis tools at bomag ag 17 integrated diagnostic and flash solution for luk gmbh 18 car2x dsrc communication 19 products edit some of the company s key products are the canalyzer analysis tool for can flexray ethernet lin and most as well as other can based protocols . the canoe development tool with support for simulation diagnostics and as a test tool for automotive ecus . used at most automotive and truck oems and suppliers canape is a development software widely used by oems and ecu suppliers of automotive industries to calibrate algorithms in ecus at runtime . embedded software components for can flexray lin autosar and others . these components can be found on nearly all automobiles with networked electronics throughout the world . 20 references edit imprint of vector informatik website revenue 2013 in the bundesanzeiger ger a b press release csm and vector reinforce their integrated measurement technology solution with joint strategy 2015 02 12 a b c d short overview of can based avionics protocols on avionics networking.com loaded march 5th 2015 address information press release vector establishes subsidiary in china news from vector website press release holders transfer ownership of vector informatik gmbh to two foundations press release vector open subsidiary in austria pdf ; 383 kb press release vector informatik opens subsidiary in brazil pdf ; 360 kb vector company history loaded march 5th 2015 diagnostic validation with gm autosar pdus with flexray at audi optimizing driver assistance systems at bmw xcp on flexray at audi efficiency and quality in gear drive calibration at zf wireless interfacing of development and analysis tools at bomag ag integrated diagnostic and flash solution for luk gmbh german barbara lange canoe.ip unterst tzt car to car entwicklung in ix . heise verlag hannover 9 2009 ssn 0935 9680 . german report of the chamber of commerce for the stuttgart region stuttgart based vector informatik gmbh is world leader in software for networked electronic systems in automobiles retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vector informatik & oldid 740140083 categories software companies of germanyelectronics companies of germanycompanies based in stuttgartautomotive companies of germany navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais sloven ina edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 08 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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