FoundryNet / Fields / vehicle.dtc_description
Canonical field reference

vehicle.dtc_description

Human-readable diagnostic trouble code description. Paired with the numeric code rather than replacing it: the code is stable and the description is vendor text, so an alerting rule keys on the code while a human reads the description.

10OEMs / profiles mapped
10distinct raw spellings
5corpus source tags
1.00match confidence
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Vendor tag table

How 10 vendors spell vehicle.dtc_description

Each of these is a real tag as the device or controller emits it, taken from the Forge mapping corpus. This is the table that does not exist anywhere else — the reason cross-vendor telemetry is hard is visible in a single column.

OEM / profileRaw tag as the device emits itConfidence
CaterpillarSPN_16361.00
Detroit DieselSPN_16361.00
FreightlinerSPN_16361.00
John DeereSPN_16361.00
KenworthSPN_16361.00
Mack TrucksSPN_16361.00
Navistar / InternationalSPN_16361.00
PACCARSPN_16361.00
PeterbiltSPN_16361.00
Volvo TrucksSPN_16361.00

Every row above is an exact match — a deterministic pack entry or a confirmed corpus mapping — so all of them carry confidence 1.00. That is not a rounding: these are the two exact-match layers, and a tag that resolves here never reaches the embedding or LLM layers. Mappings resolved by the LLM layer do carry sub-1.0 confidence, but those are per-tenant and are not published here.


Unit contract

What Forge guarantees about the value

The canonical field is not just a name. It is a contract about units, sign convention and plausible range, enforced on the way in and re-checked at read time.

SI / canonical unitunitless (identifier or enumeration)
Measurement typeinstantaneous
Distinct source tags in the corpus5

Normalization

Raw tag in, canonical field out

# Caterpillar emits its own spelling; Forge returns the canonical field
curl -s -X POST https://forge.foundrynet.io/v1/normalize \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FORGE_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"data": {"SPN_1636": 0}, "oem": "caterpillar"}'
{ "normalized": { "vehicle.dtc_description": 0 }, "match_type": "deterministic", "confidence": 1.0 }

No mapping table to maintain, and no per-vendor branch in your code. The same request shape works for every OEM in the table above.

# Same thing with no key and no account — the sandbox ships the packs
docker run -p 8000:8000 ghcr.io/foundrynet/forge-sandbox

Where this field appears

Protocols

Transports this field is carried on in the corpus.

J1939 (CAN)

OEMs that map this field

Caterpillar Cummins John Deere Volvo Trucks Detroit Diesel Freightliner Kenworth Mack Trucks Navistar / International PACCAR Peterbilt
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