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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 …
SL Controls take the pledge to become a See Change workplace Read More »
Did you know SL Controls has very low levels of staff turnover, particularly in engineering roles? There are lots of reasons for this including the range of clients and diverse technologies that our engineers work on. This makes the work exciting, always interesting, and you get to continuously gain experience and develop new skills. The …
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 …
At SL Controls, we believe it is important to reward the effort, ambition, innovativeness, commitment, and hard work of our employees. We have always done this through management recognition, salary packages, our careers pathways programme, and more. We have now launched another initiative – TOTALrewards TOTALrewards is a formal rewards and recognition programme focussed on …
SL Controls Launch Reward and Recognition Programme Read More »
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 …
SL Controls Launches TOTALline to Improve Production Line Efficiency and Traceability Read More »
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 …
SL Controls is launching a new product that will dramatically improve production lines in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and food and beverage industries. The launch is one of the flagship events of the National Manufacturing Exhibition taking place on 31 January. The National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition is the largest event of …
Your Invitation to the SL Controls Product Launch Read More »
SL Controls has launched a calendar of workplace wellbeing events for 2018 as part of the Live Well at SL and Think Well at SL programmes. Live Well at SL is an initiative by the company to promote good physical health among employees in the workplace, while Think Well at SL promotes good mental health …
SL Controls Launches its Workplace Wellbeing Programme of Events for 2018 Read More »
SL Controls is currently in the middle of an Operation Transformation initiative. Based on the television programme of the same name, it is about encouraging and helping employees to start 2018 in a healthy way. Much of the focus of healthy living initiatives like this is about physical health, i.e. eating healthy foods and leading …
Today is Blue Monday, otherwise known as the most depressing day of the year. It’s a time when all the Christmas and New Year festivities have worn off and we’re left with stretched bank accounts, the effects of holiday indulgences on our waistlines, overcast weather, and being firmly back in the daily work routine. At …
Transforming Blue Monday into Something Positive Read More »
January is a time when many people embark on living a healthier lifestyle. At SL Controls, employees can do this by joining in with the company’s Operation Transformation challenge. The initiative from SL Controls is about encouraging employees to: Take part in physical activity Eat healthily Take care of their mental health. “We took inspiration …
Leaving Ireland to find work and improve your level of experience is a great move for many people, including engineers. You get to immerse yourself in a new culture and expand your horizons. You might also have moved because of the economic difficulties Ireland faced around 10 years ago. What about now? If you come …
Are You an Irish Engineer Working Abroad? Ireland Is Your Future! Read More »
SL Controls is committed to a working environment that promotes healthy living, physically and mentally. So, on Monday 13 March 2017, we launched our new health and well-being programme called Live Well at SL. As part of the launch, we distributed a calendar of events around all offices outlining the initiatives and activities for 2017. …
Employees across all office joined in the festive fun by wearing a Christmas Jumper to work in aid of the Simon Community on Friday last. There were posters and charity boxes in each office to support the charity. If you would like to make a donation to the Simon Community, click here
In 2004, Robert O’Hanlon had just left school, was working part-time in an electrical wholesaler, and was trying to get someone to take him on as an apprentice electrician. Travel was not something he did regularly. Fast forward 13 years to now and he travels Europe and elsewhere in the world as lead field engineer …
If you saw two job openings with similar descriptions, one for a large multinational corporation and the other for a small Irish business with about 100 employees, which would you think was the better opportunity? Here are nine compelling reasons why the small company is the better option. 1. Small Companies Are More Flexible, Agile, …
9 Reasons Why It’s Better Working for a Small Business Read More »
Check out the pics here from the SL Controls Christmas Party 2017. It was in the fabulous Tullamore Court Hotel. There was about 80 of us there, the Christmas dinner was great, and we danced well into the night.
Ireland needs more young people to pursue a career in engineering. At SL Controls, we want to encourage the best young talent to study engineering, obtain a qualification, and work on our team. That’s why we launched the ECubers initiative and the OEE Games. It’s also why we reach out to transition year students and …
ECubers, the OEE Games, and Producing the Next Generation of Engineers Read More »
Keeping fit and healthy this Christmas – that’s what the SL Controls’ 12 Days of Fitness initiative is all about. Just like the famous Christmas song, the 12 days of fitness is an accumulating challenge with a new exercise every day. The idea is to add this new exercise to the others each day finishing …
The pharmaceutical, bio pharmaceutical and medical device industries in Ireland continue to grow strongly, and SL Controls is proud of the role it plays in these sectors. In fact, we now work with seven of the top 10 pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing companies in the world. These industries are a huge driver of economic …
Working With 7 of the Top 10 Pharma/Med Device Companies in the World Read More »
SL Controls has expanded significantly in recent years, increasing the number of engineers on our team. This expansion was essential and enables us to continue delivering high-quality services to our growing list of clients. Every engineer working for us across all of our offices around the country, has a different background. There are essential skills …
Most people working as an engineer in Ireland or elsewhere in the world follow the traditional career route – get an engineering degree, find employment, advance your career, and, often, obtain post-graduate degrees and other qualifications. This applies to SL Controls as much as it does in other engineering companies – most of our team …
At SL Controls, we employ engineers with a variety of backgrounds. The growth of the company, as well as the sectors in which we operate, are some of the reasons why people choose to work with us. The training and support we offer engineers who move from other branches of engineering to positions with us …
Identify the man or male cartoon character just by looking at a picture of his moustache – that was the challenge SL Controls set for its employees this November – or Movember. It was a picture competition, but one with a difference – instead of there being a winner and a prize, all correct entries …
Fundraising with a “Who’s Moustache?” Picture Competition Read More »
As part of SL Controls Think Well at SL programme, the offices recently took part in a three-legged race to Stomp Out Stigma. We launched the Think Well at SL Programme last month on World Mental Health Day. It involves several initiatives that promote good workplace mental health. The latest of these initiatives was the …
Engineers Compete in Three-Legged Race to Promote Good Mental Health Read More »
The solutions our engineers develop are central to every project we work on at SL Controls. As a result, the quality of our engineering team is important to all our clients. Our professional development, upskilling, and staff retention policies are important to our clients too. It is not surprising, therefore, that nurturing engineering talent and …
Nurturing Engineering Talent to Drive Client Success Read More »
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