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All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Toyota was the carmaker best positioned for the COVID chip shortage because they recognized it as a bottleneck. They were pumping out cars a few months longer than the others (even if they eventually hit the same wall everyone else did).

[โ€“] palitu@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

They have changed there processes now to ensure a bitore of a buffer in there supply, not so lean any more