May June 2020 Electric.ie Magazine

ELECTRIC.IE • The Magazine & Website for the Irish Electrical Industry • 11 Industry News • Prioritise the health and safety of our teams, their families and, as far as possible, all stakeholders of the company. • Protect the jobs and livelihood of our staff by ensuring the integrity and performance of the business. Build a strategy for the current conditions that will place us ready for full recovery when normality returns to the market. Do you identify issues in the Lighting Industry that you need to address? Education around regulation and promotion of technical understanding of current lighting products is essential. Issues that we identify are: • LED panels that do not bear a TPa or a TPb rating are incorrectly installed in commercial applications. • Some manufacturers provide misleading data, quoting ‘chip lumens’ rather than ‘delivered Lumens’ and give incorrect information about UGR ratings. • As an industry we need to stand up and remove this unacceptable practice which in some circumstances is putting lives at risk. We recommend and offer a lighting design that will confirm the correct ratings required for a project to be delivered to the end- user. Price depreciation has been a major issue in the industry. In 2012 we were selling an LED downlight in Australia for $70 and in 2016 the price is $10! The requirement to sell seven times as much product for the same return has caused every stakeholder in the supply chain a massive financial headache. We believe the futureopportunities in lighting lie in IoT developments. In the residential space we have delivered through our ROBUS Connect Platform. In the commercial arena we have two major product ranges, ‘Humanitas’ and ‘Linx’. Although these systems are extremely advanced, our view is that this will be the norm for every commercial property in the future. The million dollar question is ‘how quickly will the market embrace this new technology?’ OK, we know about switching the lights on and off, but how does Mick G Slein switch off ? I’ve recently got married and we are getting settled into our new home in Raheny. I love to BBQ, a little skill I brought with me from Australia. I started racing karts when I was 10 and have now returned to the sport. I was fortunate enough to compete in the world championships in Le Mans over the last two years. "It’s not about becoming a great business man, It’s about building a great company" Development of ROBUS is never far from mind. We take a key lesson from Jim Collins’ best selling book ‘Good to Great’ (Collins Business 2001) in which the concept of having the right people on the bus, sitting in the right positions, is critical in order to drive the bus to the ultimate destination. We have a superb senior management structure, supported by excellent employee teams, all driving in the direction of becoming our customers’ most trusted LED brand. Mick G Slein congratulates his father Mick Slein on receiving the EIFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 Mick Racing in Le Mans