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Government Minister Meets with SL Controls CEO and Other Sligo & Leitrim Business Leaders

Minister of State Robert Troy took a virtual visit to Sligo and Leitrim this week to meet with business leaders, including SL Controls CEO Keith Moran. Robert Troy has responsibility for Trade Promotion, Digital, and Company Regulation in the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment. At the meeting, the Minister discussed export strategies as well …

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SL Controls Team Climbs Mount Everest virtually 157 times in Live Well at SL Virtual Activity Challenge

Climbing Mount Everest 157 times over four weeks is impressive, even if it was achieved as a virtual activity challenge with all the steps taken on Irish soil. The challenge was part of SL Controls’ Live Well at SL programme, an initiative that promotes good physical health and exercise in the workplace. With staff currently working remotely, …

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Company, Team, Family: The Lockdown Experience for SL Controls CEO Keith Moran

Everyone’s experience of living and working during lockdown will have been different, but there are a lot of similarities, too. Many of us are now working differently than we ever did before. Re-evaluating how we use our time is another common theme having lived through the spring/summer lockdown, as is looking again at our work-life …

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Employees Take Part in Virtual Mountain Activity Challenge at SL Controls

Whether working at the office or from home, it’s important to keep moving and to get exercise throughout the day for both physical and mental health. To promote this fact at SL Controls, we’ve launched a Virtual Mountain Activity Challenge to the summit of Mount Everest. It’s an activity challenge lasting four weeks with each …

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Infographic – Lean Validation

  What is Lean Validation? Validation is essential for product quality, compliance, patient safety, and more. It ensures manufactured products are a consistent quality while also providing evidence of this quality. It is also ensures systems perform according to specification. Lean validation is about eliminating waste at all stages of the validation process. How to …

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SL Controls’ Engineers Part of Crowdsourcing Initiative to Provide PPE to Healthcare Workers

SL Controls engineers are using their knowledge, experience, and personal spare time to help produce PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for Irish healthcare workers. They are doing this as part of Engineers Ireland’s Covid-19 virtual factory crowdsourcing initiative. Using their own 3D printers, the engineers are printing reusable frames for protection visors.   They are manufactured …

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Case Study: Increasing Manufacturing Capacity by 25% with Zero Additional Resources

Adding scalability to your production line so you can increase output when you need to with no additional costs – this is one of the objectives you can achieve with factory automation technologies. We have direct experience in these types of projects. In the example in this case study, we delivered on this objective for …

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Advancing Your Career – Job Opportunities at SL Controls for Engineers and Project Managers

Are you looking at options to advance your career in 2020? Are you looking to improve your work-life balance while also achieving your career objectives? At SL Controls, we have a number of vacancies across the country. These vacancies are the result of our continued growth and will help us deliver on the requirements of …

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Employee Stories – Moving Back to Ireland After Living and Working as an Engineer in Australia

The start of the last decade was a time of upheaval in Ireland. The global financial crash was practically all that was in the news and, like other countries, Ireland was hit hard. One of the immediate outcomes of this was that people in many industries chose to move abroad for career reasons. Roll forward …

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Employee Stories – From India, Via Hong Kong, to SL Controls in Dublin – A Validation Engineer’s Journey

Today, Amit Patel, Senior Validation Engineer at SL Controls, works with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies from our office in Maynooth, Dublin. His journey to a career at SL Controls is slightly more unusual, however, than those employees who were born, studied, and/or previously worked here in Ireland. This gives …

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SL Controls Christmas Party 2019

On Friday 6 December we enjoyed a fabulous evening in the Clayton Hotel, Galway for our Christmas Party. Over 90 of us travelled to Galway for festive dinner and dancing until late. Here are some pics from the night.

SL Controls-Backed E-Cubers Runs B&R Boot Camp with Mechatronics Students in UL

Mechatronics masters’ students at the University of Limerick (UL) attended a boot camp last week. This wasn’t a boot camp that involved crawling through muck or running endless miles in the pouring rain, though. Instead, it was an Equipment Systems Engineering E-Cubers boot camp that was focused on the latest Smart Manufacturing and automation technologies. …

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SL Controls US Expansion Through Existing International Corporate Client

Over the years, SL Controls has completed various projects outside Ireland for clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. However, we took this international growth a stage further in 2019 by opening a new office in Florida, USA. We did this through an existing international client we have a strong and long-standing relationship with. …

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SL Controls Wins Sligo Chamber Skillnet Award

SL Controls won the Sligo Chamber Skillnet award at the Sligo Chamber Excellence Awards’ ceremony which took place on Friday evening. The Skillnet award recognises our achievements in upskilling and training our staff and our commitment to facilitating employee professional development. At SL Controls, we do this through our Pathways programme which makes it possible …

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Launch of SL Controls’ Profile Video for the Sligo Chamber Awards

The Sligo Chamber Awards take place this evening and SL Controls has been shortlisted. The award we are up for is the Sligo Chamber Skillnet Award which focuses on the training, upskilling, and staff professional development efforts of the shortlisted companies. The Sligo Chamber Awards ceremony takes place this evening at the Sligo Park Hotel. …

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The Most Important Smart Factory Trends for Pharmaceutical and MedTech Manufacturers in 2020

The development of the smart factory is a key priority for manufacturers in all industries and sectors. It’s part of the digital transformation of business, and it’s essential to remain competitive as well as to meet the needs of consumers and end-users as well as B2B customers and regulators. This all comes under the umbrella …

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SL Controls Named as the 42nd Fastest Growing Technology Company in Ireland in 2019

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards took place in Dublin on Friday evening and SL Controls placed 42nd. The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards is a prestigious annual event that brings together leading tech companies from across Ireland. The 50 fastest-growing companies are named on the list, ranked in order according to an assessment by …

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SL Controls Shortlisted for Two Limerick Chamber Awards

SL Controls has been shortlisted in the Best Employer and Best CSR Organisation categories at this year’s Limerick Chamber Awards. The Best Employer Award covers talent development and workplace wellness. It recognises companies that have set the highest standards in these areas and that have also demonstrated company-wide success. The Best CSR, or Contribution to …

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SL Controls Again Makes the List of the 50 Fast Growing Technology Companies in Ireland

This year, SL Controls has again been shortlisted in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards. It is an award for the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Ireland, as verified by Deloitte. Deloitte assesses and validates the accounts of the companies in the running for the awards, shortlisting the top 50 based on this assessment. …

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SL Controls Shortlisted for Sligo Chamber Skillnet Award for Our Commitment to Staff Training

SL Controls has been shortlisted for a Sligo Chamber Excellence Award. The award we are up for is the Sligo Chamber Skillnet Award. It recognises companies that invest in staff and demonstrate a commitment to upskilling and encouraging personal and professional development. At SL Controls, we call our talent development programme Pathways. It has enabled …

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SL Controls Competes in the Limerick Company Marathon Challenge 2019

SL Controls took part in the Company Marathon Relay Challenge in Limerick on Thursday last for the third time. The annual event takes place on National Fitness Day and promotes living a healthy and active lifestyle. The SL Controls team competed against 16 other companies with a base in Limerick including Johnson & Johnson, Stryker, …

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