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).
| ISBN: | 9783790815788 |
| Publication date: | 13th April 2005 |
| Author: | Constanze Clarke |
| Publisher: | Physica an imprint of Physica-Verlag HD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Contributions to Management Science |
| Genres: |
Business strategy Personnel and human resources management Management of specific areas |
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).
Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation features in the following genres: Business strategy, Personnel and human resources management, Management of specific areas
Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation is available in Paperback
Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation was written by Constanze Clarke and published by Physica an imprint of Physica-Verlag HD
Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation has 238 pages
Yes it is part of Contributions to Management Science series