CiA board of directors re-elected

The members of the nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association re-elected the board of directors as well as the members of the CiA business committee and the CiA technical committee.

For the first time, the CIA general assembly was hold as online meeting because of the Corona crisis. Uwe Koppe (Micocontrol) was confirmed as CiA Technical Director and Christian Schlegel (CS Consulting) as CiA Business Director. Furthermore, Holger Zeltwanger is the CiA Managing Director.

The nonprofit organization with nearly 700 members develops currently the CAN XL specifications, which support bit-rates of 12 Mbit/s and maintains the classic CANopen and CANopen FD specifications. There is also a CAN FD light specification under development.

In the meantime, 48 members of the CiA, according to their own statements, come from the elevator industry, and recently the Schindler Group has also joined the association.

More information: can-cia.org