New CiA board of directors

The nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association elected the CiA board of directors as well as the members of the CiA Business Committee and the CiA Technical Committee.

Magnus-Maria Hell (Infineon) was elected as CiA Technical Director. Christian Schlegel (CHS Consulting) was re-elected as CiA Business Director and Holger Zeltwanger is furthermore the CiA Managing Director. The nonprofit organization with about 750 members develops CAN-related specifications. This includes the CAN XL ecosystem with protocol specifications, implementation guidelines, and network design recommendations. In the last year, more than two billion CAN nodes have been installed.

The elected members of the CiA Business Committee are Emotas, ESD, HMS, Microcontrol, and Vector. The CiA Technical Committee comprises the following elected members: Bosch, Emotas, ESD, Microcontrol, and Vector.

CiA member classification: Many of the CiA members are device suppliers and technology enablers offering semiconductors, IP cores, protocol stacks, and interface units without application behavior such as dongles, for example (Date: 2022-31-12)

(Photo from left to right: Magnus-Maria Hell (Infineon) was elected as CiA Technical Director, Christian Schlegel (CHS Consulting) was re-elected as CiA Business Director, and Holger Zeltwanger is furthermore the CiA Managing Director)