Pull Scheduling Concept

The concept of pull scheduling in Lean production means to respond to the pull or needs of customers.  Lean companies design their operations to be more responsive to the varied and changing needs of their customers. Lean companies that are able to create such an operation can avoid the more traditional batch-and-queue method, which is generally acknowledged to be the worst way to process material through a factory.  A more continuous flow results in items being moved immediately from one workstation to the next as soon as they are ready. Planning for the delivery of a product to customers becomes more efficient and demand from customers becomes more stable.

Pull scheduling reduces the over production.  Only the required amount is produced in every stage. This will also allow the system to work with virtually no WIP. Altogether this makes a manufacturing system with very high flexibility and no waste.