Malfunction at Volkswagen: vehicle production stopped
A failure has been detected in the computer system at the headquarters of Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers, in Wolfsburg. The outage continues from noon today.
According to the German news agency (DPA), production was suspended at the company’s vehicle factories in Wolfsburg, Emden, Zwickau and Osnabrück in Germany due to the malfunction. The spare parts factories in Kassel, Braunschweig and Salzgitter were also affected.
It was claimed that the Volkswagen Group’s Porsche and Audi brands were also affected by the system malfunction.
THE FAILURE IS NOT LIMITED TO GERMANY
The company spokesperson announced that a crisis office was created to investigate the origin of the malfunction. It was also stated that the possibility of a cyber attack was excluded.
The malfunction is not limited to Germany. Factories of Europe’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, in other countries are also said to be affected.
It is also claimed that central applications such as e-mail communication do not work on the computers in the Volkswagen offices.
CRISIS IN TOYOTA
Toyota also experienced a malfunction in its production system in August. Operations had ceased on 28 assembly lines at the auto dealership’s four facilities.
Toyota was forced to close all of its factories in March 2022 after the computer systems of its Japanese supplier Kojima Industries suffered a cyberattack. All 28 production lines at Toyota’s 14 factories were affected. (AA)
Source: Sozcu
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