By Satoshi Sugiyama
TOKYO (Reuters) -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.
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The automaker was looking into the cause of the problem, a spokesperson said, adding it was “likely not due to a cyberattack”. The malfunction has meant the company has not been able to order components, the spokesperson added.
While the exact amount of lost output was unclear, operations were halted at all of Toyota’s domestic assembly plants except for two, the Miyata plant in the southern prefecture of Fukuoka and a Kyoto plant run by Toyota unit Daihatsu, the spokesperson said.
All together, its 14 plants in Japan account for around a third of Toyota’s global production, according to Reuters…
