Toyota Faces Production Standstill In Japan After Order System Glitch

Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp‘s TM domestic lines are now at a standstill following a production order system malfunction.

What Happened: 25 lines in Toyota’s 12 vehicle plants in Japan have been out of operation since Tuesday morning, a company spokesperson told Benzinga. The outage has been attributed to a malfunction in the production order system due to the company’s inability to process parts orders.

Further, all 14 plants and 28 lines in Japan have been declared non-operational for the second shift.

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The world’s biggest auto manufacturer by sales is currently working on identifying the cause and restoring the system, the spokesperson said, while adding that it does not believe it to be caused by a cyber attack. As per Reuters, Toyota’s Japan output averaged 13,500 vehicles daily from January to June.

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