Times are tough for Toyota and its factories in Japan: a few days ago, a fire destroyed the factory of one of its suppliers in the Czech Republic, disrupting the European production of the Japanese manufacturer’s Yaris and Aygo X.
Today, Toyota is in trouble again after a serious computer crashthis morning, Tuesday, August 29, 2023, affect the production of Japanese factories. However, the manufacturer clarifies that the cause of this incident will not be a cyber attack, contrary to what happened last year and which paralyzed its production for a day.
Production at Toyota’s Japanese factories has been suspended
In particular, this failure prevents Toyota’s computer system from processing orders for spare parts, which forced the automaker to suspend production at 12 of its Japanese factories in the morning: at least 25 production lines were affected in the early hours of the day.
A few hours later, Toyota was also forced to suspend production at its other two production sites in Japan, so it all 14 factories of the brand located in the Japanese archipelago, which are also now closed A total of 28 production lines…
Toyota’s French plant was not affected
According to a representative of Toyota, this is a large-scale computer failure affects Japanese factories only group, not its production sites located abroad. Toyota’s French factory, located in Onnain near Valenciennes in the north, which produces the Toyota Yaris, Yaris Cross and Mazda 2 Hybrid, among others, is not affected, for example.
Markets reacted very quickly to the bad news, with Toyota shares quickly falling into the red at the opening of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the morning before recovering color during the afternoon. In closing, Toyota’s share price eventually fell by -0.21% on this difficult day, when the Nikkei 225 index showed a slight increase of +0.18%.
In the first six months of 2023, Toyota produced more than 5.6 million cars. The Japanese group plans to sell 11.38 million vehicles worldwide in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, up 7.8% from the previous fiscal year, which would be a new all-time record.
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Source: Auto Plus
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