Cut Energy Waste and Tighten OT Terms to Protect LTSA Value

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Most Australian process plants can cut compressed air energy consumption by 25–40% inside 12 months with modest capital outlay, and the business case reads very differently once the correct commercial and industrial electricity rate is applied. Compressed air typically accounts for around 10% of industrial electricity consumption on a general manufacturing site and up to 30% on air-intensive process lines, yet it rarely appears on facility-level decarbonisation plans because the losses do not sit under a singl

*Byron Raal is founder and editor of Compressed Air Solutions, an independent Australian technical-resource site for plant managers, process engineers and facilities teams responsible for industrial compressed air systems

What problems can zero trust solve? An effective zero-trust implementation can address several pressing cybersecurity needs facing organisations today, namely: Enabling full mobility of staff without disrupting normal operations or affecting the access control policies in place

Challenges to implementing zero trust in OT The road from implied trust to zero trust isn’t without hurdles or complications

A zero-trust network access (ZTNA) solution refers to application access in which no user or device is trusted to access an application unless they prove their credentials. Zero-trust network access is often cited as a natural evolution from traditional virtual private network (VPN) tunnels, which assume anything that passes network perimeter controls can be trusted

Industrial networks & buses Advantech ICR-1745 industrial 5G gateway 01 June, 2026 | Supplied by: Advantech Australia Pty Ltd The ICR-1745 is an industrial connectivity gateway designed to connect IP devices and serial buses directly to 5G NR networks. Belden demonstrates 5G industrial switch 04 May, 2026 | Supplied by: Belden Australia Pty Ltd Developed in partnership with Qualcomm Technologies, the Belden BRS-5G industrial switch was demonstrated recently at Hannover Messe

D-Link DWM-311 4G LTE M2M VPN modem 15 January, 2026 | Supplied by: D-Link Australia Pty Ltd The DWM-311 is a robust and secure connectivity solution designed specifically for remote machine-to-machine (M2M) deployments across Industrial IoT applications

Pepperl+Fuchs Ethernet-APL rail field switch 01 February, 2026 | Supplied by: Pepperl+Fuchs (Aust) Pty Ltd The Ethernet-APL rail field switch is a ruggedised, managed field switch offering connectivity for Ethernet-APL devices to Ethernet networks via any protocol. Novel network cuts latency and energy use in smart factories 23 January, 2026 New research has shown why 5G alone won't meet smart factory demands, and proposed a hybrid wireless framework to cut latency, boost security and reduce energy use

Establishing commercial operations will give NET the performance data to inform that expansion, and the momentum to scale, according to the company

The funding will support NET’s first major commercial operation, the Rapid Deployment Project, which will put 20 electric prime movers and six mobile ultra-fast charging units to work on NSW freight corridors before the end of the year. In March the company demonstrated its first all-electric freight delivery from Sydney to Canberra

The funding will support NET’s first major commercial operation, the Rapid Deployment Project, which will put 20 electric prime movers and six mobile ultra-fast charging units to work on NSW freight corridors before the end of the year