The 1990's - Blockbuster was alive and well, Mark Wahlberg was still Marky Mark, and the fieldbus wars were raging. Every major automation company was fighting for market share for their industrial fieldbus - but peace is on the horizon! If you can make it through the multi-layered, mouthful of an acronym that is OPC UA TSN, you might see that this technology could change the automation industry in a huge way.

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