The automaker Toyota Motor Corp. said on Tuesday that operations at all 14 plants in Japan would be halted due to a computer system failure. It is not yet known when they will restart
This was reported by Kyodonews.
Car assembly plants that use the same system were unable to process orders for car parts on the morning of August 29. At the same time, Miyata and Daihatsu successfully fulfilled their orders before the outage, but their operations will also be suspended in the afternoon.
The issue was investigated, but the problem was unlikely to have been caused by a cyberattack, the automaker said.
Toyota reportedly closed all its plants in the country in March last year after its domestic supplier Kojima Industries Corp. suffered a system failure caused by a cyberattack.
- As a reminder, in March 2022, Toyota stopped production and imports of cars to Russia, and in September it finally closed its plant in Russia.
- On April 27, it was reported that the company produced and sold a record number of cars last year.
In July, the Japanese companies Toyota Motor and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced cooperation in the development of lunar rovers. - In addition, the Japanese automaker Toyota will increase investments in electric vehicle technology in China in an effort to stay ahead of domestic competition in the world’s largest market.
- On August 22, a representative of the automaker said that the Czech plant of Japanese Toyota had stopped production due to a shortage of parts caused by a fire at a local supplier.
