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As a co-founder of SL Controls, Keith has overseen the growth and development of the company’s services nationally and internationally. He has a deep understanding of the end-to-end process requirements of clients in SL Controls' target sectors and has structured the company’s services to respond to those needs. Keith has also established sustainable relationships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders and continues to stragically grow the company based on service and quality innovation.
The benefits of Industry 4.0 technologies, processes, and systems include improved productivity and efficiency, better flexibility and agility, and increased profitability. Industry 4.0 also improves the customer experience, including through more personalised and intelligent products. Understanding and then contextualising these benefits is important, particularly in highly regulated industries like medical device, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. …
At this time of year, it is common to see articles looking at the trends that will be important over the coming 12 months, particularly in relation to technologies. We even produce these articles ourselves at SL Controls. However, it is also important to look at smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 more broadly to assess …
5 Crucial Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Focus Topics for 2022 Read More »
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and as we look to the future at SL Controls with increased home working arrangements, we have adapted our policies on health and safety. There is now much greater emphasis on ensuring consistent standards between health and safety in an SL Controls office location and when an employee is working from …
Health and Safety and Remote Working at Client Sites Read More »
The business case for implementing smart factory technologies is compelling, with tangible improvements in revenue, output, quality, and safety, alongside reduced costs. It is not surprising, therefore, that smart manufacturing technologies are becoming an increasingly important competition driver. The technologies that are part of the Smart Factory include cloud computing, edge computing, vision systems, robotic …
Transitioning to Smart Manufacturing – A Practical and Cost-Effective Approach Read More »
Industry 4.0 is transformative. Among other things, it enables you to move from being a product-centric organisation to being customer-centric. This presents massive and potentially game-changing opportunities for your business. Implementing Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory solutions is, of course, a marathon rather than a sprint. That said, even in the early stages of the …
The Human-Centred Approach: A Key Component to Industry 4.0 Success Read More »
Manufacturing operations globally are seeing disruption they have never experienced before as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. The focus in the early weeks of the crisis was about understanding and adapting to the dramatically changed situation while those manufacturing essential products like food, medicines, PPE, and medical devices dealt with the challenge of meeting …
Industry 4.0 and the Manufacturing Industry in a Post COVID-19 World Read More »
These are challenging and difficult times for everyone. Like other companies, we at SL Controls are following the advice of the authorities in order to help protect our employees, customers, and suppliers, as well as the community in general. Our employees are currently working from home. We have extensive experience with remote working, so have …
SL Controls is a company that has deep roots in Sligo. This is where the company was first founded, it’s where we employed our first staff, and it’s the location of our head office. While Sligo remains crucial to our business operations, we now also have other locations around Ireland that are of equal importance. …
At SL Controls, we work on projects that involve improving OEE and overall productivity in manufacturing businesses. We do this by integrating platforms, equipment, machines, and systems to streamline the production process, enhance automation, improve the use of data, give greater management oversight, make production lines more efficient, and more. As our clients are primarily …
An Introduction to Equipment Systems Engineering Read More »
Sligo is one of Ireland’s fastest growing regions and there are good reasons why. Many of those reasons are listed below, with most of them playing a role in helping people living and working elsewhere in the country or further afield to make the decision to relocate. We’re proud to say that some of those …
Benefits of Living in Sligo and Working for SL Controls Read More »
Remaining competitive and profitable requires constant improvements in productivity, customer service, quality, regulatory compliance, and flexibility. Industry 4.0 promises to deliver these improvements. Often, however, there is too much hype and/or misunderstanding surrounding Industry 4.0. It’s time for some clarity. The Industrial Revolutions Let’s start at the beginning: Industry 4.0 is another way of describing …
When thinking about the opportunities that Industry 4.0 presents, you get a sense of the excitement that great industrialists of the past must have felt with the introduction of steam power and electricity. These previous industrial revolutions changed the world for the better, and Industry 4.0 will do the same. What about its impact on …
How Industry 4.0 Will Benefit the Pharmaceutical Industry Read More »
Industry 4.0 involves digitalising manufacturing and business processes to create Smart Factories. The objectives are to increase productivity, improve efficiency, and develop new sales opportunities. It offers opportunities for your career too. Importantly, we are only at the beginning of Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution. In fact, when we use the term Smart Factory, …
Industry 4.0 and the Career Opportunities it Presents Read More »
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