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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

CAN bus

Robust multi-master serial bus used inside machines and devices.

Controller Area Network: a message-oriented, multi-master serial bus with arbitration by message identifier, strong error detection, and short frames. It is common inside machines, vehicles, drives, and embedded controllers.

See also: CANopen · Fieldbus

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