Member benefits
There are several benefits to become a CiA member. One of the most important reasons is to be part of the community, in order to get in touch with CAN product and service providers and with CAN users. In particular, small and medium-sized companies need to be networked to partners to be successful in a world, which becomes increasingly smaller. In order to use CAN successfully, you need to be informed well and in time.
Benefits of CiA membership
- Getting company- and product-neutral information on CAN technology
- Developing partnerships with other CiA members
- Initiating and influencing CiA specifications
- Having access to CiA specifications in any status
- Participating in joint marketing activities
- Participating in plugfests testing your products on interoperability
- Participating in workshops to identify new specification possibilities
- Supporting the development of CAN markets by region, by application, or by higher-layer protocols
- Supporting international standardization of CAN technology
- Getting credits on CiA training and education events
- Getting credits on advertisements in CiA publications
- Getting CANopen vendor-IDs free-of-charge
- Getting the CANopen CC conformance test tool free-of-charge
- Getting credits on CiA testing services
Join the CAN community
To join the CAN community, you just need to fill in the membership application form and send it back to CiA office. The scale of the annual membership fees is available on the application form.
There are no stupid questions
The CiA office provides a CAN hotline service for technical, marketing, and product related questions. You can send your question by email or fax (+49-911-928819-79) or you can call us (+49-911-928819-0). Generally, we will answer your request within 24 hours, except on weekends or German holidays. If we need more time to respond to your inquiry, we will inform you.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers. CiA engineers have a good technical background and also some detailed knowledge on CAN technology. If we can't answer your question, perhaps we know someone who can. In the rare case that no answer is available, we will start to investigate jointly with our members to find a solution.
