Toyota Motor Corp suspended operations at a dozen assembly plants in Japan on Tuesday due to a malfunction with its production system, the automaker said, likely bringing to a halt almost all of its domestic output.
Sounds like someone pulled the Andon Cord. Must be a big issue but this is an intentional part of the manufacturing system that Toyota invented - if there’s an issue you still production until it’s fixed.
Sounds like someone pulled the Andon Cord. Must be a big issue but this is an intentional part of the manufacturing system that Toyota invented - if there’s an issue you still production until it’s fixed.