b'Partner News Summer 2021 21EnterprisePartner Spotlight SeriesIntroducing AAC Ltd The AAC team in 2019 AAC was established by a group of industrythey have capital, we can continue to play leading software development and projectto our strengths in providing that service. management professionals with a lean, agile,And our approach to be with the customer and innovative approach to project analysison every step of the journey will see our old and integrated delivery. We believe thatbusiness model of design, build, deliver and engineering in its purest form is innovationhand overturn into a much more long-term driven, stakeholder orientated problemcollaboration of many micro projects. solving.And we look forward to continuing the R&D The AAC ethos is that we value: efforts into machine learning, adaptive IT/OTIndividuals and interactions overenvironments, edge computing and cloud processes and tools - it is our peoplesolutions. After all, all engineers like to play who respond to business needs andwith toys some of the time!drive the development process. We look to support, trust, and motivate them.Working Solutions and Software over comprehensive input documents - we understand documents should be livingThe expertise and procedural rigour applied by AAC to all projects have been gained artefacts so develop and correct asand honed through experience in many projects across multiple industries. AAC works progresses. understand not only technical requirements but also your key business drivers and theirCustomer Collaborationworkingimportance. We understand what you need to achieve and will partner with you to together to achieve a common goal,achieve it.this includes early and continuous communication, so we all know where weWhy did you choose to Partner with The IET?are. A number of our engineers (including at board level) have been members of the IETResponding to Change against blindfor many years, so we knew of the aims and goals of the IET. It felt right to adopt that adherence to a programme, weacross the whole company so that we could provide that as a perk to our team and understand things will change so wealso structure their Professional Development.prepare to respond to thatThe partnership has already allowed us to structure the development for our engineers This ethos forms a set of values we takeand give them set goals and challenges to meet, we have many on the path to seriously and in the context of thoseprofessional recognition which we feel gives them the kudos they deserve for the values we can tackle whole project in awork they have put in and the experience gained. It has also allowed us to meet comprehensive customer focused way or apotential partners in both our field of expertise and others, we realise that whilst we portion thereof. We provide solutions andare specialists in our field recognising this in others so we can play to each others support for control system projects in manystrengths thus multiplying our appeal to customers.industries, bringing innovation to bear to deliver the best solution for a customer,It will also allow us to provide a structured development path for our engineers, as both at go-live and also as a partner intowell as give us the opportunity develop as a company within the framework that the the future. IET provides. We have enjoyed meeting other members of the IET and look forward to the collaborations that will bring. We believe in innovative engineering solutions What are the companyto positively impact your business from a productivity, efficiency and environmental expectations for 2021? perspective. We take great pride in being proactive in our approach, whilst ensuring Given what we have seen in the shift inthat the best interests of the stakeholders are represented at every stage of a project. mindset of our customers, where they want- Ranjit Chagar MIET, Technical Directorto see small changes often as and when'