On February 25, 2021, a free of charge webinar regarding CleANopen takes place. Anyone can attend.
The CiA story since 1992
To learn more about CAN in Automation, CiA has updated CiA's story and milestones.
Profile SIGs re-established
Recently, the special interest group (SIG) subsea and the SIG truck gateway have been re-opened. They reviewed comments on CiA 443 respectively CiA 413 specifications and discussed new feature requests.
CiA webinars
The 60-min webinars are given in English, Chinese, and Russian language. They provide overviews on different topics. Participation is free-of-charge.
CiA technology days
The 3-hour online technology days report about CiA technical developments and their applications. They address technical managers and decision makers to get a technology update.
DIN 4630-E
The Beuth publishing house has released the DIN standard proposal on data parameter specification for body application units (BAU) in commercial vehicles. The German pre-standard is written in English.
CiA Member News
The monthly-distributed CiA Member News (CMN) email contains additional information about CAN-related themes. This service is limited to CiA members. Login and subscribe here.
CiA webinars
CiA has scheduled its 2021 webinars. For details see the CiA activities list on the left. The first webinar on February 2 provides information about the CANopen Lift profile (CiA 417 series).
CAN Info Mail
As in the last year, CiA sends monthly the CAN Info Mail (CIM) email informing the CAN community about its activities and other interesting news about CAN-related topics. Subscribe here.
Happy New Year
The CiA staff is partly back in office, but most of us are still working remotely from home. Nevertheless, the CiA office is full operational.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
CiA community
The CAN community is huge. More than two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this figure is still growing. The number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is much smaller. Due to new CAN data link layer (CAN XL and CAN FD Light) and new CAN physical medium attachment developments (CAN SIC and CAN SIC XL), the membership is growing, too. There are also new members interested in CiA profile developed for new markets such as battery management, fire-fighting equipment, etc.
“We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and recommendations are born,” said Holger Zeltwanger, CiA Managing Director.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.