Yeah, yeah, we have all done 'Lean' to death. Good idea, applied poorly in this environment.
But what about the second half of the question - the 'Pulse' bit. How is that working?
From my perspective, again Pulse is one of those things that works really well in civvie street and on production lines where ALL the spares are ready to go and the condition of each item being made is known. The problem in the military is that we don't have the spares and this can lead to holes and this can completely bu**er up the pulse as suggested in one of the messages above. Additionally, there are virtually no aircraft types that can accurately predict the condition of the aircraft entering pulse, there can only be a rough idea of how much arising work is going to be found and again this impacts the pulse.
Pulse is a very effective way of doing things if you know exactly what it is you are going to do and you have everything to hand to do it - we have neither.