Your host
Vladimir Romanov
Director of digital transformation, founder, and the person you want in a discovery meeting, because he's been on the other side of the table.
$20MM+
Production lines commissioned
200k+
Engineers trained via SolisPLC
26
Unionized techs led
200+
Manufacturing Hub interviews
From the plant floor to the mic
Vladimir Romanov has spent his career on the controls and operations side of real manufacturing. At Procter & Gamble he led the procurement, deployment, and validation of two $20MM+ production lines, the fastest startup in the site's history, and built high-speed vision and control systems that pushed line speed up 20%.
Across Kraft Heinz, Post Holdings, and other food manufacturers, he designed, programmed, and commissioned PLC, HMI, SCADA, and MES systems at full-plant scale, led a team of 26 unionized technicians, and drove a 20% OEE improvement through data systems and operating discipline.
Today he runs Joltek, an independent automation and digital-transformation consultancy, and founded SolisPLC, the training platform that has reached over 200,000 engineers, technicians, and plant leaders worldwide. He co-hosts Manufacturing Hub (200+ interviews with manufacturing leaders) and speaks at Automate, SPS, and ICC.
He holds an MBA from McGill and a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from Concordia, and is a US/Canadian dual citizen working on both sides of the border.
Why Factory Field Notes
After years of training engineers and advising plants, the best questions kept coming from the field, not from textbooks. Factory Field Notes is where those questions get answered honestly, without a vendor steering the conversation.