VDE NexusStandards beyond documentsSMART Services for applying standards digitally.
VDE Nexus delivers standards content in machine-readable and machine-executable form as SMART Standards: from ReqIF and API through to AI. Instead of searching, reviewing and retyping standards by hand, you use the content that matters to you, ready for automation in your own systems.
Manual work with standards slows teams down.
Today the path from a standard into a system runs through many manual steps: picking the relevant requirements out of a PDF, interpreting them and transferring them into requirements management by hand.
Relevant passages are hard to find
Standards usually come as extensive documents. Identifying the statements that matter for a specific use case takes time and requires expert knowledge.
Manual transfer is error-prone
Identifying requirements by hand and transferring them into engineering or quality systems takes time and carries technical, commercial and legal risks.
Updates create uncertainty
When a standard changes, it is hard to trace which individual requirements are affected. Without structured data this cannot be automated.
A delivery platform that makes standards usable digitally.
VDE Nexus is a delivery platform that structures and versions standards content and makes it available through interfaces right where the work happens.
ReqIF · Nexus AI · API
- Turning standards into SMART Standards
- Versioning and change tracking
- Delivery as ReqIF, via API or to AI agents
Result: Import in minutes instead of days. Every requirement stays traceable back to the clause in the standard.
Standards as structured requirements.
ReqIF is the first exchange format for SMART Standards established across industry. It provides standards content as machine-readable, structured requirements. The content complies with DIN DKE SPEC 99200 and is available for VDE, CENELEC and IEC. You can integrate it directly into your systems, and updates stay traceable at requirement level.
Standards knowledge directly in your AI workflow.
If AI systems are to use normative requirements reliably, they need structured, current and machine-processable data. VDE Nexus provides SMART Standards content through the Nexus AI agent (RAG, MCP). That enables faster decisions, better support and more productive teams.
The Nexus AI agent opens up access to the standards portfolio and makes it easier to work with. VDE Nexus uses SMART Standards as the basis, in addition to the standards information.
- ↔Seamless integrationIntegrate standards knowledge directly into existing AI workflows, from chatbot to development environment.
- 👥Expert knowledge for more peopleStandards and domain knowledge delivered fast, precisely and in context for more of your people.
- ⚡More efficient developmentAI assistance for requirements engineering, validation and test case design.
What you achieve with VDE Nexus .
Time saved
Targeted search: Find exactly the requirements that fit your specification.
Resources freed up: Time for product development instead of retyping requirements.
Reliability
Content integrity: Data unchanged and complete, straight from standardization.
Pre-classified: Clearly marked: requirement, recommendation or note.
Licence model
Legally sound: Use in your own system covered by a suitable licence.
Built for digital use: Licensing for use in systems instead of for individual documents.
Traceability
Unique identifier: Every requirement remains traceable to its normative source.
Change management: Review and adopt updates at requirement level.
The company behind VDE Nexus.
VDE SIS GmbH (Solutions Interfaces Services) has brought together all VDE activities around SMART products and services since 2026. We make standards machine-readable and machine-executable and connect standards knowledge with modern technologies such as APIs, SMART Standards and AI applications.
Our mission: Bringing standards into application.
Download the test standard and import it straight away.
Want to see what a standard looks like as structured requirements? Download a real sample standard in ReqIF format and import it into Siemens Polarion with the preconfigured project template. Both are publicly available in the GitHub repository from DIN and DKE for DIN DKE SPEC 99200.
Sample standard as ReqIF
DIN VDE 0132 (VDE 0132):2018-07 as .reqifz: a complete standard, split into individual, classified requirements in line with DIN DKE SPEC 99200.
Import template for Siemens Polarion
Project template with ready-made import mapping for the data fields defined in SPEC 99200, including standardized attribute display, with no manual settings for every import.
Open templateProvided by DIN and DKE in the public GitHub repository for DIN DKE SPEC 99200.