Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on 'insufficient disk space'

Source: The Guardian

Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’

‘Just in time’ production system minimises costs but technical glitch highlights risks

Justin McCurry in Osaka and agencies
Wed 6 Sep 2023 11.27 BST
Last modified on Wed 6 Sep 2023 14.02 BST

Toyota has blamed a recent shutdown of all of its factories in Japan on a system malfunction caused by “insufficient disk space”.

The Japanese carmaker said the stoppage on 29 August at all 14 of its domestic plants occurred after servers that process orders for vehicle parts broke down following a maintenance procedure carried out the previous day.

During this operation, “data that had accumulated in the database was deleted and organised, and an error occurred due to insufficient disk space, causing the system to stop”, Toyota said on Wednesday.

The world’s top-selling automaker reiterated that the incident had not been caused by a cyber-attack. “We would like to apologise once again to our customers, suppliers, and related parties for any inconvenience caused by the suspension of our domestic plants,” it said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/toyota-blames-factory-shutdown-in-japan-on-insufficient-disk-space

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