Push builds to a forecast. Pull production builds to actual customer demand. Push is efficient at low variety. Pull is responsive at high variety. The sweet spot is a hybrid: use pull for final assembly (what the customer actually ordered) and push for generic sub-assemblies (common components).
The Production Pivot: Transforming Raw Ideas into Impactful Assets production
You cannot scale what you cannot repeat. Standards are not about stifling creativity; they are about capturing best practices. In , standardization applies to: Push builds to a forecast
Elias mimicked an explosion with his hands. "Then, a month from now, thermal expansion causes that weak solder joint to crack. The device fails. Now, the cost isn't just thirty minutes of downtime. Now we have a Return Material Authorization (RMA). We have shipping costs back to us. We have an engineer spending hours debugging. We have a customer who thinks we make cheap products." Pull is responsive at high variety