Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues about the past. CTOnews.com, Sept. 6, according to the Japanese Newsletter, Toyota announced today that the reason for the shutdown at 14 factories in Japan has been found, mainly due to routine system maintenance.

▲ source Toyota official website, it is also reported that the backup machine running on the same system also suffered a similar failure, resulting in the suspension of plant operations. The system manages production, parts orders and other work, and carried out system maintenance and database arrangement on August 27. At this point, the system stopped running due to an error due to insufficient disk space.

As the system, including the backup machine, stopped working and could no longer order parts from the partner manufacturer, vehicle production at each plant was halted from the morning of August 29 to the evening of the 30th, affecting production of about 14000 units. Measures will be taken to increase production on future operating days.

"We would like to reiterate that the system failure was not caused by a cyber attack, and we apologize for that," ‎ said in a statement. The company announced a policy to strengthen measures to prevent recurrence, such as reviewing maintenance procedures.

According to CTOnews.com, a Toyota spokesman said that due to the system failure, the factory could not continue to order car parts, affecting 28 assembly lines, mainly responsible for producing best-selling models such as the Corolla, Camry and Prius hybrid.

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