The first CAN and CANopen seminars take place on March 23 and March 24. To increase attendee’s safety in times of the coronavirus, the CAN and CANopen seminars are still scheduled in a web-based format.
Subsea profile webinar
On March 16, a free of charge webinar regarding the Subsea profile takes place. The CiA 443 CANopen profile for SIIS level-2 devices covers all simple sensors, multi-functional meters, & valves used in so-called Christmas trees.
Embedded World 2021
CiA participates in the Embedded World conference 2021 (session wired fieldbus). H. Zeltwanger speaks about CAN XL (day 1), R. Zitzmann reports about CANopen FD USDO services (day 2), and Y. Yao talks about CAN FD Light (day 3).
CAN Newsletter magazine
The March issue of the CAN Newsletter magazine 2021 has been published.
CAN Info Mail
This email service is free of charge. Next issue is available on March 1. It can be subscribe also by non-members, who are interested in CAN technology.
CAN’s birthday
In 1986, Bosch presented the CAN protocol in Detroit on an SAE congress. More information on the 35th anniversary is available in the CAN Newsletter Online.
CiA board of directors
The CiA general assembly has re-elected its board of directors: Uwe Koppe (Technical Director), Christian Schlegel (Business Director), and Holger Zeltwanger (Managing Director). Also the business committee (BC) and technical committee (TC) members have been re-elected.
CleANopen webinar
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.
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. Close to two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this is still growing. Compared with these figures, the number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is very small. Several have left the CiA community in the last years. Some of them are coming back due to the CAN FD development. And there are many things still to do.
We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and products are born.