Toyota Motor Co ., Japan's largest car maker, announced it was suspending production at its 12 factories because the quake made parts delivery difficult.
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It provides " just in time " parts delivery, guaranteed, come hell or high water, for customers on the nationwide scale of General Motors.
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Today, the Group has 16 representative companies in the country, undertaking parts delivery and service provision for both customers and industry in addition to vehicle production and import.
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It might seem surprising that Toyota, the company whose manufacturing concepts like just-in-time parts delivery are emulated by the industry, would need a makeover at all.
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Piech said that, in any case, some kind of exchange could be negotiated with BMW so that the Munich-based automaker continues its parts deliveries, the newspaper said.
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The planned move date of its signal to the new antenna was scheduled to occur on November 1, 2012, but the parts delivery for the new transmitter was delayed until December 20.
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Meanwhile, the economic effects were being felt in the eastern city of Mulhouse, where 7, 000 employees of a Peugeot auto plant were laid off because the strike held up parts deliveries.
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The biggest impact so far of the shutdown of Canadian National Rail, Canadian Pacific Rail, and Via Rail has been on the auto industry, which depends on parts deliveries that are almost hourly.
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The East Liberty plant, he said, was the first in the nation to switch to cleaner water-based paint, in 1989, and was the first to use returnable containers for parts delivery.
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Daewoo Motor's three plants have been idle since its subcontractors halted parts deliveries Tuesday to protest the company's delays in paying 1.5 trillion won ( dlrs 1.2 billion ) in overdue bills.
