‘Just in time’ production system minimises costs but technical glitch highlights risks
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.
Toyota said the system had been restored after the data was transferred to a server with a bigger capacity, enabling it to restart production at the plants – which together account for about a third of the automaker’s global production – the following day. Toyota is known for its “just-in-time” production system of providing only small deliveries of necessary parts and other items at various stages of the assembly process.
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