CAN in Automation (CiA): CiA in action

October 12, 2018

Final sprint: SPS IPC Drives and Bauma Shanghai

As usual, the SPS IPC Drives and Bauma Shanghai tradeshows take place at the very same week. CiA serves both exhibitions and is present in Nuremberg... Read more

October 1, 2018

New CiA members 2018

The CAN community welcomes its new members. Read more

September 12, 2018

CAN (FD) and CANopen seminars in Nuremberg (DE) and Maribor (SL)

CAN in Automation GmbH (CiA) has scheduled in the second half of 2018, seminars for Classical CAN, CAN FD and CANopen. Read more

August 20, 2018

IAS China: CiA on the German Pavilion

The Industrial Automation Show (IAS) takes place in Shanghai from September 19 to 23. Read more

August 3, 2018

CiA email services

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) does not allow to send information without permission by the receiving person anymore. Read more

July 30, 2018

CAN FD technology days

In 2018, CiA organizes the CAN FD technology days in Czech Republic and Italy. Read more

July 30, 2018

CANopen device switch-off and switch-on

CiA 320 specifies services and protocols to switch-off and to switch-on CANopen devices. Read more

July 30, 2018

CAN FD bit-timing recommendations

CiA has released the CiA 601-3 document. It provides guidelines, how to set the bit-timings in CAN FD networks. Read more

January 2, 2018

New CiA members 2017

The CAN community welcomes its new members. Read more

April 19, 2017

CiA seminar in United States

This spring, CiA organizes a one-day event in in Cleveland (OH). The seminar is focused on CANopen. Read more

April 19, 2017

CiA plugfests

Plugfests are a kind of interoperability testing. Companies connect their prototype products in order to test the interoperability to other devices. Read more

April 19, 2017

CiA seminars go online

We have scheduled several CAN 2020 webinars. These 3-session events will provide a look into the future of CAN technology. Read more

March 31, 2017

Reiner Zitzmann: CEO of CiA GmbH

Reiner Zitzmann (41) has been appointed as CEO of CAN in Automation (CiA) GmbH. Read more

March 17, 2017

General assembly 2017

At CiA’s annual general assembly, the associations’ members elected the board of directors. Read more

February 22, 2017

CANopen FD - the art of embedded networking

Get more information on our stand no. 630 in hall 1 at the Embedded World in Nuremberg (March 14 to 16, 2017). Read more

December 22, 2016

CANopen FD – enhanced features

CiA members demonstrated on the SPS IPC Drives tradeshow the capability of the USDO protocol. Read more

December 22, 2016

CAN 2020 in China

CiA supported by Kvaser and ZLG organized one-day information events in Shanghai, Liuzhou, and Guangzhou. Read more

December 22, 2016

Seminar program 2017 released

Please see the new seminar schedule. Registration can be done online. Read more

December 21, 2016

New CiA members 2016

The CAN community welcomes its new members. Read more

September 30, 2016

Mapping of J1939 to CAN FD

CiA has released the CiA 602-2 specification internally as a Draft Standard Proposal (DSP). It describes the mapping of J1939 and other commercial... Read more