CiA has inaugurated the special interest group (SIG) welding devices. The SIG aims to develop an application profile for advanced manual arc welding and plasma cutting systems. The profile should enable plug-and-play functionality for basic setups. The resulting system should provide contradiction-free data to the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) and facilitate regulatory compliance and protection of the worker’s health. For more information, contact secretary(at)can-cia.org.
New SAE J1939DA edition
Beginning of May, SAE has released an update of the J1939DA Excel sheet. It is intended to supplement the J1939 documents by offering the J1939 information in a form that can be sorted and searched for easier use.
SIG welding devices
CiA is going to inaugurate the SIG (special interest group) welding devices on June 1. It is intended to specify the CANopen application profile for welding machines and welding robots. For more information, contact CiA office.
21th CANopen Lift plugfest took place
In May, CiA members tested their CANopen Lift devices. The lift host controller companies tested interoperability of their host controllers with lift devices from different manufacturers in one-to-one sessions.
CiA 103 updated
The CiA specification for intrinsically safe CAN device interfaces has been released as version 1.1.0. The document has been editorially improved including one misleading figure.
CiA at 14th Autosar Open Conference
On the first day of the Autosar Open Conference (AOC) in San Diego (USA), Holger Zeltwanger is going to give a presentation with the topic “Harmonization of models and terminology for CAN technologies”. The two-day event takes place on May 11 and 12, 2023.
CAN and cybersecurity webinar
On May 16, CiA’s free-of-charge webinar regarding CAN and cybersecurity takes place (16:00 to 17:00 UTC+2). Interested participants can still register for the 1-hour webinar (including 15 minutes of discussion, question, and answer).
Be part of the CAN Newsletter
For the June issue of the CAN Newsletter magazine, CiA is still looking for interesting articles regarding CAN. Maybe you have an extraordinary application report where a CAN product was used, or any other exciting topic regarding CAN? Send your technical article at pr(at)can-cia.org.
CAN Info Mail April
The European Parliament discusses a right-to-repair law. The right to repair is a rather vague concept that may mean different things. Read more in the current issue of the CAN Info Mail.
New CiA Board of Directors
The annual General Assembly has elected Magnus-Maria Hell (Infineon) as Technical Director and re-elected Christian Schlegel (CHS Consulting) as Business Director as well as Holger Zeltwanger as Managing Director.
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.