The CiA Technical Committee has established new Interest Groups (IG) and renamed some already existing groups. The IGs are described briefly here.

CiA office prepares a CiA 401 PDO mapping for CANopen FD. First members like to show at SPS IPC Drives prototype implementations. The document CiA 401-2 is intended to be released beginning of next year.

SAE develops the J1939-22 document, which specifies an application layer for CAN FD. CiA has submitted its multi-PDU approach (CiA 602-2) to be integrated into the SAE document.

The CANopen SIG application layer has scheduled a two-day meeting (2018-10-22/23) to harmonize additional CANopen FD related specifications (EDS, test plan, and LSS). All members are invited to participate in this meeting.

The CANopen specification for open networks in passenger cars has been improved. CiA 447-2 and CiA 447-3 version 2.1.3 introduces some new parameter for the virtual devices information signaler and switch keypad.

As usual, the SAE J1939 committee has updated the digital annex. Since the beginning of August, the J1939DA is available by SAE. It contains PG (parameter group) and SP (suspect parameter) specifications, for example.

ISO has released the test plan for the high-speed MAU compliant to ISO 11898-2:2016. The dynamic test cases include functions specified in ISO 11898-1:2015 for implementations with partial wake-up functions.

In September, CiA organizes a CAN FD Tech Day in Irvine, CA. This free-of-charge one-day event provides basic information on the physical and data link layer as well as standardized application layers such as CANopen and J1939.

Since 1999, CiA assigns the CANopen Vendor-IDs. In total, 1325 IDs have been assigned. This year, it was already 35. This means, there are still new CANopen supplier joining the community. The list of IDs is here.

The CAN Info Mail (CIM) is sent monthly to its subscribers. It provides detailed data of scheduled CiA services and other interesting information about CAN technology.