The full company name is RLS Merilna tehnika d.o.o., established in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1989 year 12 month.

RLS is the acronym for "Rotary and Linear Sensors".

At the beginning of the company's establishment, we were dedicated to providing solutions in the fields of motion control and metrology applications.

Since 2000, the company has begun to specifically design and manufacture magnetic encoders and their components for industrial customers and distributors worldwide.

RLS Standard Products and Custom Solutions

RLS designs, manufactures, and provides advanced rotary and linear motion encoders to meet the growing demands of the global market. RLS possesses extensive knowledge, experience, and innovative concepts, enabling RLS to provide custom product solutions that meet customer needs. The development of custom solutions typically begins with selecting an appropriate standard product, followed by determining the extent of required modifications. The range of adjustments for RLS encoders is very broad, including physical dimensions and shape, communication protocols, connectors, and degree of environmental protection. Throughout the development process, RLS engineers can offer feasible suggestions based on previous successful solutions for similar applications or on how to reduce costs.

This approach allows us to significantly reduce development time while providing our customers with highly competitive solutions according to the agreed final specifications.

Over the past few decades, we have worked closely with partners across various industries. From heavy machinery, advanced surgical and collaborative robots, aviation and deep-sea applications, to one of the world's largest solar power plants, RLS encoders can meet the most demanding operating conditions.

RLS Partnerships

RLS is an affiliate of renishaw. Renishaw is one of the world's leading measurement companies, holding 50% of the shares in RLS, and sells RLS magnetic encoders and provides technical support through its extensive global network. For 15 years, the two companies have collaborated closely, jointly conducting research projects and defining market strategies and other courses of action to provide customers with superior products and services. Our partner Renishaw has a large and experienced sales team, and together with our other distributors, Renishaw provides strong sales support for our products globally. Meanwhile, RLS is responsible for selling Renishaw products in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia.

RLS Academic Cooperation and Exchange

RLS has a fine tradition of close cooperation with well-known universities. Experts and scholars focus on research in specialized scientific fields, helping us accelerate the development of new products, while we also provide them with opportunities to carry out new research projects. One example of this successful collaboration is the development of an integrated Hall sensor ASIC, which is used to measure the rotation of a diametrically polarized magnet located directly above it.

This later became an industry-recognized standard for measuring rotation due to its many advantages, such as low cost, small IC package, high resolution, and extreme robustness. Little known is that RLS was the first company in the world to develop this new concept, and this design philosophy is now used in millions of ASIC sold annually worldwide. These reliable ASIC remain the core of our OnAxisTM products.

RLS Academy

Although maintaining cooperative relationships with higher education institutions brings considerable returns, we also place great importance on consolidating and enhancing our own knowledge base. The RLS Academy is one of the channels for systematically converting external knowledge into internal company knowledge.

We regularly invite employees to participate in technical seminars, attend lectures given by visiting scholars, and encourage employees to propose new RLS Academy topics. In addition, we continuously strive to provide students with the opportunity to work in a satisfying and dynamic environment through various scholarship and apprenticeship programs.

RLS Traditions

At RLS, we uphold the concept of sustainable development and firmly believe in the importance of leading by example. We have a responsibility to continuously assess and improve our role in various activities to protect the natural environment and bring positive impacts to society. Recent activities we have actively participated in include: supporting local community building, sponsoring national sports organizations, competitions, and top athletes, and providing medical services to people in remote areas of underdeveloped countries.

Furthermore, RLS frequently encourages employees and other stakeholders to strictly adhere to environmental policies. We often face urgent issues; although we cannot control their consequences, we insist on staying true to our principles when making final decisions.