Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space

Toyota’s 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days final week resulting from a manufacturing order system malfunction attributable to a scarcity of disk house, the corporate introduced in the present day.

In response to Toyota, its Japanese factories and their 28 meeting traces have been halted resulting from “some a number of servers that course of half orders” changing into unavailable and inflicting Toyota’s manufacturing order system to malfunction on August 28.

The issue started throughout upkeep work on August 27. Toyota’s press launch stated:

Through the upkeep process, information that had collected within the database was deleted and arranged, and an error occurred resulting from inadequate disk house, inflicting the system to cease. Since these servers have been operating on the identical system, an identical failure occurred within the backup operate, and a switchover couldn’t be made.

A Reuters report in the present day cited two nameless sources “with information of the matter,” who claimed that the malfunction occurred whereas the elements ordering system was being up to date.

Toyota noticed a 3rd of its whole manufacturing shut down till August 30. It stated it restored its manufacturing order system on August 29 after transferring the information to a bigger capability server.

The announcement is a blunder for the world’s top-selling automaker, which did not be sure that mission-critical operations would have the ability to operate. However Toyota was additionally eager to affirm that the outage was “not attributable to a cyberattack.”

The automotive vendor’s cybersecurity has confronted scrutiny over current years. Toyota shut down the identical 14 Japanese factories in February 2022 resulting from a provider getting hacked. A Reuters report on August 30 recommended that final week’s outage could also be extra financially detrimental to Toyota than the 2022 occasion since “home output was up 29 p.c within the first half of this yr, the primary such enhance in two years.”

Toyota was additionally hacked in 2021 by way of a US manufacturing parts subsidiary and at least thrice more in 2019.

To stop related occurrences sooner or later, Toyota stated it is carried out “countermeasures” created by way of “replicating and verifying the scenario.” It additionally stated it will assessment its upkeep procedures.

The carmaker apologized to “prospects, suppliers, and associated events for any inconvenience.”