Explainer-What happened to shut down Toyota's production in Japan?

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(Reuters) - Toyota Motor was ramping back production at its Japan-based factories on Wednesday after a computer system processing orders for vehicle ...

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In February last year, Toyota also had to shut down the same 14 factories in Japan when one of its suppliers, Kojima Industries, which supplies plastic parts and electronic components to Toyota, said one of its file servers had been infected with a virus that carried an undisclosed threatening message.WHAT'S THE IMPACT OF THE ONE-DAY LOSS OF PRODUCTION?

Toyota's production in Japan - about a third of its global output - averaged about 13,500 vehicles a day in the first half of the year, Reuters calculations showed. That excludes vehicles from group automakers Daihatsu and Hino. "Kanban" means signboard in Japanese, and the Toyota engineer and later executive, Taichi Ono, who developed the system drew inspiration from watching an American supermarket chain, Piggly Wiggly, manage its shelve stock on a trip to the United States in the 1950s.

 

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