Toyota Motor (NYSE:TM) attributed the recent suspension of production across all Japanese factories to a system malfunction triggered by a lack of available disk space.
The automaker explained that the halt on August 29th, affecting all 14 of its local manufacturing facilities, occurred due to server failures responsible for handling vehicle parts orders. These server issues emerged following maintenance conducted the day before.
Toyota said on Wednesday that during this operation, “data that had accumulated in the database was deleted and organized, and an error occurred due to insufficient disk space, causing the system to stop.”
Toyota emphasized once again that the incident was not the result of a cyber-attack. “We would like to apologize once again to our customers, suppliers, and related parties for any inconvenience caused by the suspension of our domestic plants,” it said.
The system has been restored after the data was transferred to a server with a bigger capacity, enabling Toyota to restart production at their plants.
“We will review our maintenance procedures and strengthen our efforts to prevent a recurrence, so that we can deliver as many vehicles to our customers as soon as possible,” Toyota added.
Shares of TM are up 2.09% near end of day trading Wednesday.