Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a "Tesla Production System"?

Daum, Timo

Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a "Tesla Production System"?

dc.contributor.author	Daum, Timo
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T13:47:45Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T13:47:45Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	This discussion paper investigates two questions: To what extend can Tesla be regarded as a digital firm, and do we - as a result - see elements of a distinct "Tesla production system"? While the EV-startup is widely approached as a competing automaker focusing on the electric drive train, which it certainly is, this paper argues that it can only fully be understood as a digital firm - a digital car company with a digital product embedded in a digital ecosystem. Its roots in Silicon Valley, its software-first approach, and its strategic exploitation of user activity data point into this direction. In the second part, this paper explores to what extent Tesla's rootedness in software and its Silicon-Valley ancestry gave reason to introduce methods borrowed from software development on the shop floor. To a certain degree, concepts from agile software development found their way to the very assembly-line at Tesla. Although it might be exaggerated to speak of a distinct "Tesla Production system", indications for a considerable and possibly enduring alteration of Lean Production paradigm can be determined.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Daum, T. (2022). Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a “Tesla Production System”? (Weizenbaum Series 31). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/31
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.ws/31
dc.identifier.eissn	2748-5587
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/139
dc.identifier.zdb	3064032-5
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Series
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject	Economics	en
dc.subject	Manufacturing	en
dc.subject	Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology	en
dc.subject	production	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	electric vehicle	en
dc.subject	manufacturing	en
dc.subject	software	en
dc.subject	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject	Agile Methods	de
dc.subject	Shop Floor	de
dc.subject	Tesla	de
dc.subject	Produktion, Fertigung	de
dc.subject	Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie	de
dc.subject	Elektrofahrzeug	de
dc.subject	Produktion	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Software	de
dc.subject	Fertigung	de
dc.subject.ddc	330 Wirtschaft
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title	Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a "Tesla Production System"?
dc.type	WorkingPaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	31
local.researchgroup	Arbeiten in hochautomatisierten, digital-hybriden Prozessen
local.researchtopic	Mensch – Arbeit – Wissen