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“ I was very clear about my digital and AI strategy when I came on board as CEO, and PP C & A is the first company in the UK, and, as far as I’ m aware, the first in the industry, to create a bespoke AI product,” Pinaki reveals.“ We’ ve worked on an agentic AI model to drive efficiency and productivity in two key areas of our operation: Bill of Materials( BOM) and labor. Calculating a BOM typically involves an engineer analyzing schematic designs that could be hundreds or even thousands of pages. Our AI model can read these documents to provide summaries and present the most meaningful parts to our engineers, so although an engineer still needs to check the results, the tool is already making 40 percent savings in terms of engineering time.
“ Although this investment is large for a company of our size, the AI tool will have a direct impact on our bottom line, and I believe that the companies that don’ t adopt
AI now will be left behind,” he adds.“ We’ re currently adding more features to our model using 55 years of legacy data, and we’ ve just appointed a company in Silicon Valley to develop the model. We plan to then apply for a patent for this technology before making it commercially available to our customers and even potential competitors.”
With an advanced AI tool under development and a strong growth strategy aimed at geographic expansion and M & A activity, PP C & A is sure to succeed under Pinaki’ s leadership.“ Clear goals and a very healthy order book are giving us momentum to not only achieve a record-breaking year but also make history by transforming and consolidating this market over the next fiveto-ten years,” Pinaki concludes. ■
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