{"product_id":"automotive-production-systems-and-standardisation-von-constanze-clarke","title":"Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation","description":"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).\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783790815788\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrom Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783790815788","offer_id":49593200574789,"sku":"9783790815788","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/82b2f26b-088e-41b4-8543-97ec6b93b52c.jpg?v=1775105838","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/automotive-production-systems-and-standardisation-von-constanze-clarke","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}