Advanced Technical Concepts (ATC) Awards
Small Lean Business of the Year 2024
This award recognises our commitment to building a people-first, behaviour-led Lean culture. It acknowledges the discipline, consistency, and everyday improvements that our team brings to our customers. Being named Small Lean Business of the Year reflects how ATC applies Lean in a real factory, with real people, creating real impact, not as a project, but as a way of working.
Finalists, Best SME
Clare Business Excellence Awards
Reaching the finals for Best SME highlights ATC’s growth, resilience, and operational excellence. It reflects the strength of our team, the trust of our customers, and our focus on delivering practical engineering solutions with precision, care, and reliability.
Manufacturing & Engineering Family Business of the Year 2024 (Bronze)
Irish Family Business Awards
Winning Bronze in a national category acknowledges ATC’s 30-year history as a family-run engineering company, built on relationships, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement. This award recognises how we combine technical capability with a family-business ethos, accountability, pride in our work, and long-term commitment to our customers.
Best Medium Business Award 2019
All-Ireland Business Foundation
This award recognises sustained excellence in leadership, operations, and customer value. It reflects ATC’s ability to scale quality, embed robust systems, and deliver dependable engineering solutions. The foundation acknowledged our strength as a growing Irish business with a clear purpose, strong culture, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Business All-Star Accreditation 2018
All-Ireland Business Foundation
Business All-Star accreditation confirms ATC’s standards in performance, trust, and customer experience. It validates the consistency and professionalism of our team, and it marked an early milestone in our journey toward becoming a world-class, Lean-driven engineering company.
Frequent Questions about this Topic
Lean manufacturing is a methodology focused on minimizing waste and maximizing value by continuously improving processes and workflows in production environments.
A Lean culture promotes efficiency, quality, and continuous improvement, leading to better customer outcomes, reduced costs, and a resilient, engaged workforce.
Awards often recognize leadership, operational excellence, customer value, innovation, and commitment to continuous improvement.
ATC was recognised as the Small Lean Business of the Year in 2024, highlighting their application of Lean principles with a people-first approach in a real factory environment.