Operations Manager

Vyacheslav Vetokhin

Connects top management goals with what actually happens on the shop floor: interviews at every level, visual standards instead of multi-page instructions, operational reporting and clear dashboards in the workshops. Leads the development and design of digital products for industry, including Hattatsu LMS.

In Brief

Vyacheslav Vetokhin

Operations Manager · Visual Solutions Expert

Vyacheslav Vetokhin is an operations manager with 8 years of experience in B2B consulting and project management. He combines a fundamental scientific approach, field engineering practice (Genchi Gembutsu) and digital product development.

At Hattatsu Group he is the link between top management's strategic goals and the real processes on production sites.

Facts

8 yearsin B2B consulting and project management
345+ daysof “net” time spent directly on production sites
8digital products in the portfolio: websites, corporate portals, dashboards
55+meaning-driven design mockups for manufacturing companies

Field engineering

Work on production sites

In-depth interviews and audit

Interviews people at every level, from managers to machine operators, and uncovers the real rather than documented difficulties of each department.

Eliminating hidden losses

Genchi Gembutsu practice exposes non-obvious problems, above all the communication gap. When the sales department is isolated from production, orders reach the shop floor without regard to what the equipment can actually do, which leads to unplanned changeovers and lost time. Turning processes into algorithms removes this barrier and synchronises the departments.

Visual standards (SOP/OPL)

Develops short, clear and visual operating standards that replace ineffective multi-page factory instructions.

Digital products

Digital architecture and UX/UI

Leads development and works as a UI/UX designer of B2B products, translating complex production requests into the language of IT solutions.

Hattatsu LMS and corporate portals

Architect of secure corporate solutions that can be deployed on closed servers with no internet access. The platform combines a learning management system (LMS), a news portal and an operations management module: org structure and documentation.

B2B design: meaning over decoration

Industrial interfaces are designed to be concise, precise and free of visual clutter, with the user's task solved as quickly as possible.

Reporting · PDCA

Operational reporting for management

As the right hand of executives and a business analyst, he builds the operational reporting system, breaking down the company's global goals to the level of a specific workshop.

Live dashboards

Delivered production dashboards for monitoring workshop output, covering more than 60 employees.

Transparency and motivation

Dashboards for workers and top management removed the objections of production staff: every employee sees the results of their work in real time, understands the company's common goal and how their work contributes to it.

Education

Academic and research background

Academic backgroundMaster's degree from Southern Federal University in Multifunctional Materials
Research backgroundResearch into new materials for bone implantsUMNIK programme grant recipientAuthor of a Russian invention patent
PublicationsAuthor of two papers in international journals indexed in the Scopus databaseScopus profile ↗

Scientific method in consulting

A rigorous scientific method, from hypothesis to testing and data analysis, is now the core of his approach to describing and optimising business processes.

Competencies