Hours of standstill in the Japanese Toyota plants – production impossible. Now the cause of the problems in the past week has been found.
The recent loss of production at Japan’s largest carmaker Toyota was due to insufficient storage space on servers. Some servers used to process spare parts orders were no longer available after maintenance work, the Volkswagen rival announced on Wednesday. The incident in which Toyota’s domestic production was down for around a day was not a cyber attack.
Due to insufficient storage space, an error occurred during maintenance that brought the system to a standstill. The system was restored after the data was transferred to a larger capacity server, Toyota said.
As a result of the problem, operations on initially 25 production lines in 12 of Toyota’s 14 domestic assembly plants failed last week. During the same day, the rest of the 28 production lines were also shut down. Production was restarted the following day.
Source: Stern
