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Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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In January 2000, Mercedes-Benz started to implement the Mercedes-Benz Prod- tion System (MPS) throughout its world-wide passenger car plants. This event is exemplary of a trend within the automotive industry: the creation and introduction of company-specific standardised production systems. It gradually emerged with the introduction of the Chrysler Operating System (COS) in the mid-1990s and represents a distinct step in the process towards implementing the universal pr- ciples of lean thinking as propagated by the MIT-study. For the academic field of industrial sociology and labour policy, the emergence of this trend seems to mark a new stage in the evolution of the debate about production systems in the auto- tive industry (Jürgens 2002:2), particularly as it seems to undermine the stand of the critics of the one-best way model (Boyer and Freyssenet 1995). The introduction of company-level standardised production systems marks the starting point of the present study. At the core of it is a case study about the M- cedes Benz Production System (MPS).
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Book Title: Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation
Book Subtitle: From Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz
Authors: Constanze Clarke
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138988
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1578-8Published: 13 April 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1628-0Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Operations Management, Human Resource Management