1st ICAI 2020

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2020

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Analysis of Error’s Causes in VIN Identifier, Their Consequences and Ways of Elimination Roman Rak University of Finance and Administration Faculty of Law and Administration Department of Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences Estonská 500, Prague 10, 101 00 Czech Republic e-mail: Rak.Roman@seznam.cz Abstract One of the key aspects of automotive informatics is the worldwide unique Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). This is allocated to the vehicle in the production process. At the same time, during the life of the vehicle, the VIN then manually (by hand transcript) gets into various registers, registers (state administration, police, city authorities, insurance companies, leasing companies, etc.). Information systems are then interconnected using VIN, which serves as the so-called database primary key. And here it depends on how well (i.e perfectly flawless) VIN was introduced into these information sources. In practice, however, the VIN error rate in various computer systems is relatively high and thus directly threatens the implementation of various key processes. Completely automatic and manual, performed by man. The paper deals with the analysis of errors in the VIN and possible solutions. Keywords : automotive industry, errors impact, errors rate, information systems, 1. Introduction The development of the automotive industry is now closely linked to electromobility and digitization; electrification and electronization as such. In this direction, the vehicles themselves, transport and information technology infrastructure, automotive telematics are developing. The key processes are either ongoing or will be fully autonomous, without the primary human involvement. However, security, reliability of these processes, including data exchange and processing, will always remain a key aspect. These are the default attributes of all other processes or activities. Each vehicle manufactured after 1986 must be identified with a unique VIN ( Vehicle Identification Number ) by the manufacturer (Kolitschova et al, 2018, p. 3). This is so called individual vehicle identification, which is normally used as a primary data information key in various computer registers and vehicle information systems – in national vehicle registers, in police information systems (both national and international databases of stolen vehicles, etc.), in insurance company databases, leasing companies, Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) JEL Classification: C61, C83, C88, R42

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