The Loss of production at the world’s largest car manufacturer Toyota in the past week was due to insufficient disk space on the servers. The group announced that some servers that were used to process spare parts orders were no longer available after maintenance work. In the event of the failure, Toyota’s domestic production stood still for around a day.
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The error is therefore not due to a cyber attack. Lack of disk space led to the problems that brought the system to a standstill. After the data was transferred to a larger-capacity server, the system was restored and production restarted, Toyota said.
As a result of the problem, operations on initially 25 production lines in 12 of Toyota’s 14 domestic assembly plants failed last week. During the same day, the rest of the 28 production lines were also shut down. Production was restarted the following day.