Toyota Motor Corp. will extend a partial production halt in Japan through Oct. 18 following an explosion at a supplier this week, the automaker says, the latest in a series of problems highlighting issues related to the manufacturing system at the world's largest carmaker.
Toyota Production Halt: Production in five lines at three Toyota Auto Body plants - all of the unit s lines - was stopped due to the accident, affecting production of minivans such as the Alphard as well as some Land Cruiser models, including for overseas markets.
Toyota Chezhia Fire: The Czech unit of Japanese automaker Toyota said Friday it would suspend its production for another week following a fire at the factory of its plastic parts supplier. The country s largest automaker, Skoda Auto, said Friday it was suspending a part of its production for at least a week because of a drop in supplies from a Slovenian company damaged by heavy flooding there.
Toyota Production Halt: The disruption shut down a system that is at the core of Toyota s lean manufacturing, a way of reducing inventory and maximising production efficiency that the Japanese automaker pioneered and its rivals have widely adopted.