As a future technologoy for infrastructure, FieldConnex is already well-known and firmly established in all sectors of the process industry. True to the credo “Shaping the Future of Process Industries”, Pepperl+Fuchs is now taking the next step towards the future: the Ethernet-APL rail field switch is the first product on the market with an Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer, or Ethernet-APL for short. This technology is the first to implement Ethernet in the harsh environments of process plants, and thus enables barrier-free, parallel communication. Digital communication via two-wire Ethernet is thus making its way into the field of process plants and makes IIoT applications easy to implement in process automation.