Automotive production systems and standardisation : from Ford to the case of Mercedes-Benz /
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| Author / Creator: | Clarke, Constanze. |
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| Imprint: | Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag, c2005. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 238 p.) : ill. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contributions to management science, 1431-1941 Contributions to management science. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8875604 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 238 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238). |
| ISBN: | 9783790816280 3790816280 |
| ISSN: | 1431-1941 |