Anthony Tarantino

Anthony G. Tarantino, Ph.D., CPIM, CPM, began his career with 25 years in manufacturing supply chain operations. Over the next 15 years he led dozens of supply chain, lean/continuous improvement, and risk management projects for KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint, IBM, and Cisco. While at Cisco, he became a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Over the last five years, he has supported multiple smart manufacturing startups focused on applying computer vision to help companies improve efficiencies, quality, and safety. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Santa Clara University for 12 years, developing lean/continuous improvement training and certification programs for students and corporate clients. The author of more than 20 articles, along with five books for Wiley and Sons, his latest book, Smart Manufacturing, the Lean Six Sigma Way, will be released in May 2022.

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Using Smart Technologies to Improve Quality and Reliability Smart technologies provide a single source of truth for rapid response and accurate decision-making
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In 2007, Nassim Taleb described black swans as highly improbable events that had dramatic or even catastrophic effects on markets and economies. Until recently, it seemed that such events were indeed rare.1 There’s now a major rethinking with the…
Using Computer Vision AI to Automate InspectionRemoving the human factor can increase visual inspection accuracy
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This article is an extract from Smart Manufacturing, the Lean Six Sigma Way, Wiley, available May 2022 The U.S. and EU economies are facing a major labor shortage in manufacturing. A pre-Covid survey projected the need for more than four million new…