Volkswagen announced on Thursday that a significant IT disruption that had forced the shutdown of most of its German plants had been fixed overnight and that its global production network was once again operational.
The event, which VW claimed started on Wednesday at 10:30 GMT and was made public late that day, had an effect on the whole Volkswagen group, which includes the Porsche AG brand and Audi, and it exposed the weakness of the network infrastructure at Europe’s largest automaker.
Without elaborating on the significance or origin of the event, Volkswagen stated that “the IT infrastructure problems in the Volkswagen network were resolved during the course of the night and the network is stable again.”
The corporation declined to comment on the scale and breadth of the issue, the affected production, or any potential financial repercussions, stating that it was doubtful that an external attack was the origin of the problem.
Restarting the impacted applications is currently underway. manufacturing is anticipated to proceed as scheduled, according to the statement, which added that specific systems might still be impacted during the transitional period. The global manufacturing network is operational.
The event occured a month after Japan’s Toyota, the top-selling manufacturer in the world, was forced to suspend domestic manufacturing due to a production system problem.
Volkswagen plants in Germany, including those in Wolfsburg, Emden, Osnabrueck, Hanover, Dresden, and Zwickau, as well as component factories in Braunschweig, Kassel, Chemnitz, and Salzgitter, were all affected by the outage.
