In February 2022, Toyota suspended operations across all 28 production lines at 14 manufacturing plants in Japan for a full day after a system failure at a key supplier severed network communications with Toyota’s production monitoring systems. The ripple effect extended across numerous partner companies. At Toyota’s production volumes, those 14 plants accounted for roughly a third of its global output.If a cloud-based production scheduling system goes dark, work orders freeze and operators on the floor los ...