• palitu
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    1 year ago

    not to mention the lean process effed them during fukashima and covid, with a breakdown in logistics and a shortage of chips, meant that their entire mode of operating shut down, as they had no capacity to deal with any outages in any of their systems. Maybe that has happened again, just in server land.

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      1 year ago

      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).

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        1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t just Fukushima. There was a massive flood in Thailand at the same time that shut down a load of suppliers. It was a really bad bit of luck but they did learn from that.

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, this is all from memory.