Toyota called the cause of the failure in the work of factories

Manufacturing system failure in factories Toyota Motor in Japan was caused by the unavailability of several servers processing parts orders. This happened due to lack of space on the database disk, reported on the automaker’s website.

Toyota outlined the sequence of events. The day before the failure, on August 27, regular maintenance work was carried out. The information accumulated in the database was partially deleted and streamlined. After that, an error occurred due to lack of disk space, which led to a system halt. Since these servers were running on the same system, a similar failure occurred in the backup function. This led to the suspension of production. The system was restored after transferring data to a server with a larger capacity on August 29, the factories resumed work the next day.

The automaker specifically emphasized that the failure in the system was not caused by a cyber attack, and also promised to review the maintenance procedure.

14 assembly plants Toyota Motor, which account for about a third of Toyota’s global production, suspended work in Japan on August 29th. Due to the failure, the automaker could not order the components needed to assemble the cars.