SL Controls is donating €500 to the Galway Simon Community after it won the most votes in our latest Share the Love campaign. Share the Love is an SL Controls’ initiative that supports local good causes and charities. This campaign focused on the Galway area where SL Controls has a well-established and busy office. The …
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SL Controls have linked up with the Irish Heart Foundation to run an employee Step Challenge. The Challenge will run for four weeks from 11 July to 8 August as part of the Live Well at SL programme. SL Controls employees from across the company are participating by increasing their daily steps. During the Challenge, …
E-Cubers is an initiative that is proactively addressing engineering skills shortages in Ireland. While it promotes engineering in general, the main focus of E-Cubers is an emerging engineering role that is increasingly in demand – Equipment Systems Engineer. Equipment Systems Engineers have both traditional engineering skills as well as skills in new technologies and processes. …
On Friday, 29 June, we swapped engineering and writing code for space hopper racing and football darts as we travelled to Athlone for our annual summer outing. This year we enlisted the help of Get West for our activity: the SL Controls Office Olympics at Buccaneers Rugby Club in Athlone. The activities included a series …
SL Controls continuing to expand and grow. Tech companies in Sligo collectively announcing hundreds of new jobs in the first five months of this year alone. Specialist companies involved in the MedTech industry based in the North West of Ireland coming together to launch the Atlantic MedTech Cluster last month. These are just some examples …
The World Cup gets underway this week, so we decided to celebrate SL Controls Diversity Week. While SL Controls doesn’t have as many nationalities as teams in the World Cup, we do have people from 12 different countries working for us. SL Controls Diversity Week is the ideal opportunity to celebrate and learn about the …
Keith Moran co-founded SL Controls and is its Managing Director. Read a profile article from the Sunday Independent which details the launch of the company and its journey to date. View PDF: Sunday Independent 3 June 2018
Last week SL Controls was part of the launch of the new Atlantic MedTech Cluster. The Cluster includes SL Controls and seven other companies based in the North West that provide specialist services to the MedTech industry. Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, launched the Cluster. Here is some of the press …
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The new Atlantic MedTech Cluster officially launched in Sligo this week. The Atlantic MedTech Cluster includes eight Irish MedTech specialist companies that are all based in the North West, including SL Controls. The other companies involved are Arrotek, ATS, iNBLEX Plastics, Pharma Stainless, Tool & Gauge, Verus Precision, and Ward Automation. Together these companies have …
The See Change Green Ribbon campaign is continuing this month and, as part of our support for it, we are running a photography competition. So, what has photography got to do with encouraging people to discuss mental health issues in the workplace? It is all about the theme of the competition, which is Mind Your …
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SL Controls has made the shortlist for the IoT Innovation Award at this year’s Tech Excellence Awards for our TOTALline suite of products. This includes TOTALdata and TOTALbatch. Other nominees in the Internet of Things innovation category are: ActionPoint AmbiSense Blueface Vodafone This is the 18th year of the Tech Excellence Awards, an event widely …
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Every day in Ireland, people who are suicidal, who self-harm, or have been bereaved by suicide, contact counsellors at Pieta House for support. This support is provided completely free of charge and is invaluable to those who make contact with the service as well as society generally. It is for these reasons that SL Controls …
Share the Love is a quarterly campaign we run at SL Controls to support good causes and charities. It gives employees as well as their friends and family a say on which local charities and good causes SL Controls supports. It also helps focus our efforts on local projects. Each quarter we run the campaign …
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The IT Sligo Engineering Expo took place on the 3 May in the Knocknarea Arena at IT Sligo. The event brings together industry exhibitors, students of all ages, and educators. On the day, students showcased their final year projects for the general public and exhibitors to see. SL Controls were delighted to participate in judging …
What is the Green Ribbon Campaign? The annual Green Ribbon Campaign takes place every May. It aims to get people talking openly about mental health problems and challenges the associated stigma that sometimes comes with mental health issues. The Green Ribbon campaign is managed by See Change, the national stigma reduction partnership. SL Controls is …
Have you done any spring cleaning in your home yet? At SL Controls, our team took the opportunity to spring clean and at the same time help children and adults in Ireland with disabilities. We did this by providing each of our regional offices around the country with a yellow Enable Ireland bag, asking everyone …
SL Controls today presented a cheque for €500 to Carraroe National School in Sligo. The school plans to use the money to help buy a new football net. The presentation of the donation took place at the school’s assembly this morning. The donation is part of SL Controls’ Share the Love campaign. This campaign involved …
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SL Controls is participating again this year in the National Workplace Wellbeing Day today, Friday 13 April. National Workplace Wellbeing Day is in its fourth consecutive year and as a registered participant, SL Controls will be among the large number of companies publicly showcasing our commitment to the wellbeing of staff. The day is on …
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To find out more about SL Controls, the work we do, and the people on our team, watch our new corporate video. For more information on how we can help your business, please contact us today.
If you passed any of our offices around Ireland on Easter Thursday, you may have seen a bunch of engineers running around with a balloon between their legs. This is how we roll at SL Controls. To be specific, you would have seen members of our team taking part in our Easter Spring Chicken Race. …
A company with growth plans as ambitious as ours at SL Controls needs top quality engineers. Could you be the next engineer to join our Limerick team? In addition to having ambitious growth plans, we also operate in an engineering sector that is itself experiencing considerable growth. One of the reasons for this is the …
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Share the Love is a campaign SL Controls launched in February to support local good causes and charities. We are delighted to announce the winner of the first campaign is Carraroe National School in Sligo. It will receive €500 which will go towards the purchase of a new football net for the main play area …
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SL Controls is using International Women’s Day to encourage more young women and teenage girls to consider a career in engineering. “You don’t have to look very far to find figures that highlight the gender imbalance in engineering,” said Adrienne Burke, SL Controls In-House Recruiter. “It starts at secondary school when young people start choosing …
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The countdown to the Limerick for Engineering event is on – again. The major engineering showcase was originally planned for last week but was delayed because of the weather. It will now take place this Thursday, 8 March. The location is the same, though – the Departures Hall of Shannon Airport. It’s at 6pm …
Watch Paul Clarke, SL Controls’ technical director, explain the TOTALline product and its benefits to your business.
The workplace has been identified as a key setting for mental health stigma reduction activities. Recent research conducted by Dept. of Health and See Change found that almost half of Irish people would deliberately conceal a mental health problem from co-workers. 47% surveyed believed that being open would have a negative impact on a person’s …
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Valentine’s Day is a day of romance. At SL Controls, we want to extend the sharing of love further so are using today to launch a new campaign to support local charities and good causes. We have teamed up with onestepcloser.to to give our employees, their family, and friends a say in the charity SL …
SL Controls has launched its new suite of products, TOTALline. The launch took place at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain conference in Dublin today. Read the product launch press release below. Press release: An Irish engineering firm has developed cost-saving software that vastly improves production line efficiency and traceability One million engineering hours spent …
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OEE is crucial to your operations. If you’re improving it, you’re moving in the right direction. If it is slipping backwards you must immediately address the issues. What if we could improve OEE in your production line by up to 20 percent? It’s a big claim, but we’re launching a product tomorrow that does just …
It is the final week of the Operation Transformation initiative at SL Controls. Throughout January, employees from all our offices have engaged in activities to promote workplace physical and mental health. This included everything from walking a mile at lunchtime to setting personal goals at the start of every week. Part of the initiative was …
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