The production of Toyota cars in Japan was suspended today and production will resume tomorrow, Wednesday

Toyota will resume operations at its Japanese assembly plants on Wednesday after a 24-hour stoppage due to the disruption of its supply chain. The world’s largest automaker by sales said its 14 factories in Japan temporarily suspended operations on Tuesday. This is because a system malfunction that started on Monday prevented it from processing orders for automotive components.

Production is expected to return to normal at all fourteen factories in Japan from the start of the second shift on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. She said in a statement : “We knew that the flaw in the system was not caused by a cyber attack. Toyota said: “however, we will continue to investigate the cause “ We would like to apologize once again to our customers, suppliers and related parties for any inconvenience caused by the suspension of operations.”

Toyota was the leader in the field of “just in time”production. It is a system based on the delivery of component parts to assembly plants in the right quantities just before they are required. The system saves warehouse space and money but is prone to downtime if any link in the chain is broken.

The extent of the production loss was not immediately clear. Together, Toyota’s factories in Japan account for almost a third of the automaker’s global production. Toyota delivered nearly 10.5 million vehicles last year. By comparison, Volkswagen sold 8.3 million cars in 2022.

Last year, Toyota was forced to stop Japanese production after a cyberattack on one of its suppliers led to a system failure. A similar problem also took place in obtaining auto parts and the suspension lasted for one day.