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Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation

From Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Constanze Clarke

    1. Faculty of International Business Administration (IB), University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Heibronn, Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-24

  3. The evolution of standardisation

    Pages 25-69

  4. The history of production systems in the automotive industry

    Pages 71-125

  5. The case of the Mercedes Benz Production System

    Pages 127-172

  6. The results of implementing the Mercedes-Benz Production System

    Pages 173-202

  7. Conclusion

    Pages 203-216

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 217-238
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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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  • Faculty of International Business Administration (IB), University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Heibronn, Germany

    Constanze Clarke

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