Push vs Pull Manufacturing: Terms and Ideas
Across
- 5. This company makes drinks in a pull method of production.
- 6. This is the rate of production, when matched to customer needs will allow for no overproduction.
- 9. This product is made using a push method because of long lead times. The product is started and then the representative of the company looks for a buyer.
- 11. Not only can each method be applied to a production assembly as a whole but also each method can be applied to separate _____.
- 12. As in the example of Peter Russel, one company may be based on a push system and another on a pull method of production but they are both connected with this system.
- 13. When a product is made and inventory is created. The customer is then enticed to buy, through marketing.
- 14. The people everything focuses on. These people drive the production and are the reason for the business.
- 15. An approach that mixes the push and pull methods of production.
- 16. Many times in push systems product is waiting as ___.
- 17. This system is based on the idea that when an item runs out, another is produced or ordered to replace the void.
Down
- 1. When a product is produced due to a customer order limiting inventory and following lean practices.
- 2. When the future demand is determined to predict the amount of product to produce.
- 3. When there is a void or _____ it signals to a pull system to produce a new item.
- 4. This is a custom job that is very flexible and allows for variety. Most of the time they will be push methods.
- 7. Small group of products moved through production. In a pull method, this is preferred because as soon as an order is received this small group can quickly be made. In a push method, this small group of products will be produced beforehand to then be sent to fulfill orders.
- 8. When products are produced rapidly and have little to no variety. In a pull method of production, these orders are to fill what has been sold. For a push method, many products are rapidly pushed to the end to fill the shelves of made-to-stock stores.
- 10. When a plant or process of manufacturing is set up to use both push and pull depending on the lead time of each part.