2023-08-29 10:43:56
Production at Toyota’s 14 factories in Japan paralyzed by a giant computer failure. Occurring on Tuesday, this failure prevents the computer system from processing orders for parts, explained the world’s number one automobile.
Tuesday morning, the group therefore suspended 12 of its factories, concerning 25 production lines. Then, in the afternoon, it decided to halt operations also in its two remaining factories in the country, the disruption thus affecting a total of 28 production lines.
This failure concerns only the Japanese factories of the group and not its many production sites abroad, also specified later Toyota. The action of the group, which had started rising on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, fell into the red after this information. The stock closed the session down 0.2% while the Nikkei index gained 0.18%.
World production up sharply
“At this time, we do not believe this is a cyberattack,” a spokeswoman for the company told AFP. Last year, Toyota was forced to suspend all production in Japan for a day due to a cyberattack that hit one of its suppliers, Kojima Industries.
After being mainly affected last year by disruptions in supply chains and shortages of semiconductors, Toyota’s global production has accelerated sharply since the beginning of this year. Its global production exceeded 5.6 million vehicles in the first six months of 2023, an increase of 10.3% over one year and a new half-year record for the group, according to figures published at the end of July.
The group (which also includes its Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino brands) plans to sell 11.38 million vehicles worldwide in its current fiscal year 2023-2024, which would be a new record and an increase of 7.8% over a year.
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