{"product_id":"9783790815788","title":"Automotive Production Systems and Standardisation : From Ford to Case of Mercedes-Benz (Contributions to Management Science)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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). The evolution of standardisation.- The history of production systems in the automotive industry.- The case of the Mercedes Benz Production System.- The results of implementing the Mercedes-Benz Production System.- Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Physica Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45491066929231,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3850.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9783790815788-1.jpg?v=1783325697","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9783790815788","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}