Join the community!

There are benefits to become a CiA member. The most important reason is to be part of the community in order to get in touch with other CAN product and service providers. In particular, small and medium sized companies need to be networked to partners to be successful in a world, which becomes increasingly smaller. In order not to miss the CAN business, you need to be informed well and in time.
Benefits of CiA membership
- Initiating and influencing CiA specifications
- Getting credits on CiA training and education events
- Having access to CiA specifications in any status
- Getting credits on some CiA publications
- Getting CANopen vendor-IDs free-of-charge
- Receiving exclusively the monthly CiA Member News
- Taking part in a company- and product-neutral information platform
- Participating in plugfests and workshops
- Getting the classic CANopen conformance test tool
- Participating in joint marketing activities
- Developing partnerships with other CiA members
- Getting credits on CiA testing services
- Supporting international standardization of CAN technology
- Development of CAN markets by region, by application, or by higher-layer protocols
To join the CAN community, please, fill in the membership application form and send it back to CiA office by email or by fax (+49-911-928819-79). The scale of the annual membership fees can be seen on the application form. To see the CiA rules, IP policy, or CiA’s antitrust compliance, and other information, please, use the links on the right.
There are no stupid questions!
The CiA office provides a CAN hotline service for technical, marketing, and product related questions. You can send your question by email (service(at)can-cia.org) or fax (+49-911-928819-79) or you can call us (+49-911-928819-0). Generally, we will answer your request within 24 hours, except on weekends or German holidays. If we need more time to respond to your inquiry, we will inform you.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers. CiA engineers have a good technical background and also some detailed knowledge on CAN technology. If we can't answer your question, perhaps we know someone who can. In the rare case that no answer is available, we will start to investigate jointly with our members to find a solution.
