On Monday at the Chuo Spring Co. factory. in Aichi Prefecture, where vehicle suspensions are produced for many Japanese manufacturers, including: Toyota, there was an explosion – he describes. The building was damaged and two employees were injured. The media does not say what the reason for the explosion was. However, because of it, it suspended production on 11 production lines in seven plants. Some of them were turned off already on Monday evening, and some only on Tuesday morning. that the suspension of production affected, among others, minivans such as the Alphard, as well as some Land Cruiser models, including for foreign markets.
Is Toyota suffering because of its own production policy?
The last time a production downtime of this scale occurred in August. Then, as a result of a serious failure, production was temporarily suspended (for one day) at all Toyota Motor Corporation plants in Japan. The system processing orders for car parts stopped working.
that this type of production downtime is partly to blame for Toyota’s policy. The company is known for using the “just-in-time” system in its plants, which involves delivering the necessary parts to factories in quantities that meet only current needs. Such a system minimizes costs and increases efficiency, but – due to the lack of spare parts (or a small amount of spare parts) – it involves the risk of downtime in the event of.
Source: Gazeta
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