Toyota’s 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days last week due to a production order system malfunction caused by a lack of disk space, the company announced today.
According to Toyota, its Japanese factories and their 28 assembly lines were halted due to “some multiple servers that process part orders” becoming unavailable and causing Toyota’s production order system to malfunction on August 28.
The problem began during maintenance work on August 27. Toyota’s press release said:
