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Following our announcement earlier this month, the process of merging SL Controls with parent company NNIT is progressing well. Part of that merging process includes rebranding SL Controls as NNIT. NNIT acquired SL Controls in 2021, immediately strengthening the service offering and value proposition offered to clients. Integration between teams in both organisations has been …

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Following a huge amount of work by our fantastic team over many months, we are ready to announce that SL Controls is fully merging with our parent company, NNIT. This process will be completed in January 2025 and represents a very exciting time for the newly integrated SL Controls and NNIT team. What does this …

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SL Controls is set to fully integrate with NNIT by January 2025 Ireland to become global ‘smart factory’ base for NNIT SL Controls is to merge with multinational NNIT as Ireland takes on the role of the global ‘smart factory’ base for NNIT. Former SL Controls CEO Keith Moran will head up NNIT’s Smart Factory …

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We are proud at SL Controls to support the St. Vincent de Paul Christmas gift appeal in Sligo again this year. A number of colleagues took part to ensure struggling families have presents this Christmas. Norma Mulligan, People & Culture Executive at SL Controls said: “The work St. Vincent de Paul does is amazing at …

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SL Controls teams at our regional office locations came together on Friday for Christmas parties. As we have done in previous years, the venues chosen were close to our office locations to minimise travel, so there were three parties in total, in Sligo, Limerick, and Galway. Norma Mulligan, People & Culture Executive at SL Controls …

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2024 has been busy commercially and operationally for SL Controls, and it has also been busy for our ESG (environmental, social, and governance) leaders and facilitators. Throughout the year they organised a range of initiatives and activities focused on our five sustainable development goals: Good health and wellbeing Quality education Gender equality Decent work and …

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Christmas is a unique time of the year in the workplace as much as in the shops and in our homes. While it is often a time of celebration and happiness, it can also be a time of stress and challenge. That’s why the Mental Wellbeing Champions at SL Controls are emphasizing the need to …

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November is a time for getting out the hats and gloves, taking down the Halloween decorations, and getting ready for the run-in to Christmas. For some of the men on the SL Controls team, it is also a time for growing a Mo – a moustache – as part of Movember. Movember is a campaign …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. Imagine you have a really big, complicated system that helps people make important things, like medicine or toys. My job is to check and test the system and make sure it works and is safe, so it doesn’t break or make mistakes. …

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1. What do you do at SL Controls? I am a Validation Engineer working on projects for large multinational pharmaceutical companies. My role involves creating and reviewing documentation for the validation of utilities and equipment, procuring and setting up Linux servers, and completing various tasks on different servers to ensure they are set up correctly …

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Last week was Mental Wellbeing Week at SL Controls with a series of events and initiatives around the important issue of mental health in the workplace. This included an employee anchor day on Thursday 10 October, World Mental Health Day. Employees who were able to work from one of our offices enjoyed a pizza lunch …

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The SL Controls team has returned from the Ignition Community Conference 2024 where they got a better understanding of how the new release of Ignition scheduled for January will benefit our customers in the life sciences sector. Systems Architect Brian McLaughlin also participated in an integrator panel discussion covering the technologies and trends that are …

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It is just a few days to go now until Pharma MES 2024, and the SL Controls team will be there. Taking place this year in Berlin, Pharma MES 2024 is one of the most important events in Europe for pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing. In addition to the focus on manufacturing execution systems, this year …

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It is now less than two weeks until ICC 2024 – the Ignition Community Conference 2024 – and SL Controls is delighted to be attending. In-person places are sold out for this very popular event in the industrial automation calendar, but Systems Architect Brian McLaughlin will be there to represent Ignition Premier Integrator, SL Controls. …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I work with machines to help make them manufacture products in a factory smarter or faster. This normally means programming the machines to share their data and present it to an operator who can then make better decisions based on that information. …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. My job is similar to building a house. First, I speak to the house owners to get to know them and understand their requirements. From there, we agree on the price and the amount of time it will take to build it. …

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Members of the SL Controls team got together recently in Athlone for our annual company outing. The day started with a puzzle solving challenge called Beat the Box organised by Orange Works. We had to work together as a team to identify the code which turned out to be our employee appreciation tagline: Celebrating Wins …

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Promoting good physical and mental health is an important priority for SL Controls, and it never hurts to add in a bit of friendly competition. So, throughout the month of June, 30 members of the SL Controls team split into five teams to compete in our summer activity challenge. Participants could engage in any type …

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SL Controls engineers recently completed an engineering education programme with 5th-class primary school pupils at Youghalarra National School in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. SL Controls Systems Architect Volker Winhausen and Senior Validation Engineer Andrew Ryan took part in the programme which is run by STEAM. STEAM is an organisation that partners with industry to inspire …

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a central priority for SL Controls, so we took the opportunity last week on National Diversity and Inclusion Day to reinforce our commitment to making positive changes. This included launching company-wide unconscious bias training as well as our second DEI employee survey. The survey aims to capture the views …

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International Women in Engineering Day takes place this weekend, on Sunday. The theme for International Women in Engineering Day 2024 is Enhanced by Engineering, so the focus is on women who have enhanced by engineering “people’s everyday lives and are helping to build towards a brighter future”. SL Controls is an engineering company. The majority …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I’ll describe my job as kind of like baking a cake. So, in order to bake a cake, a project manager would have to see how we get to the end goal, which is we want a cake, but in order to …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I manage projects for various medical and life science clients. My role involves supporting commercial activities, understanding customer requirements, and building a project team and scope to deliver to those requirements. 2. What types of projects are you working on at the …

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The 21st May is World Day for Cultural Diversity 2024, an initiative to highlight the richness of the world’s cultures and encourage intercultural dialogue. To celebrate, we asked the SL Controls team to share information and reflections about their country and culture. Watch the video now.

SL Controls has been certified as a Premier Integrator for Ignition, the digital transformation platform for industrial automation. Ignition by Inductive Automation features flexible and fully customisable SCADA and MES (manufacturing execution system) functionality with comprehensive integration capabilities. NNIT Group company SL Controls is one of only three Ignition Premier Integrators in Ireland and the …

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SL Controls is marking Workplace Wellbeing Week 2024 with a number of initiatives and events, culminating in Workplace Wellbeing Day on Friday 26 April. Hosted by Ibec, the aim of Workplace Wellbeing Week/Day is to promote social, mental, and physical wellbeing in the workplace. We have initiatives and events taking place throughout the week: Mindful …

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1. Describe your job as if you were explaining it to a five-year-old. I think probably the easiest way to describe what I do is I work closely with customers to provide solutions to their needs, such as improving their productivity, reducing their waste, and reducing their costs. 2. What are you working on at …

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SL Controls engineers Derek Loughlin and Conor Davey will be speaking at the Northwest’s Robotics & Digitalisation Event this week. The event is open to companies who want to embrace and learn more about implementing digitalisation technologies. It will feature experts from the digitalisation field, including SL Controls. The Northwest’s Robotics and Digitalisation Event will …

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Explore Engineering 2024 took place at Shannon Airport in Clare last week and the event was a huge success. The engineering showcase continues to go from strength to strength as young people and their families meet engineering companies in the region to explore the potential career opportunities that exist in the engineering sector. Deirdre Loughlin, …

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