The concept of Pull production means to respond to the 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...