Honda Cars India has said that the cyber-attacks on the parent company's internal servers haven't resulted in disruption of manufacturing at Honda's India plants.
Honda Cars India's production schedule has not been disrupted
by the cyber attacks
Earlier this week, Honda Motor Company, Japan reported that
its internal servers were under cyber-attack, spreading a virus through the
company's IT systems. That resulted in operations temporarily shutting down at
the company's plants in Brazil, Turkey and USA. All affected plants in USA have
resumed operations now. In total, 11 Honda plants were affected across the
globe, which five are in USA. Honda Cars India's production was reported to be
affected as well, but carandbike reached out to the company and has learnt that
HCIL's production wasn't impacted.
(The next launch from Honda
Cars India will be the new-generation Honda City, which has already been teased
on social media)
Honda Cars India's
spokesperson said, "A company wide network disruption has been reported by
Honda companies globally. While the problem is currently under investigation,
the recovery process is underway. Since we were in the preparatory phase of
resuming production in HCIL plants after COVID-19 related shutdown, the network
disruption has not impacted the production."
The company resumed manufacturing at its Tapukara, Rajasthan
plant on May 20, but is yet to resume full-fledged production at its other
plants. The company was preparing its plants for production and therefore, has
managed to avoid any disruption in its manufacturing process. Honda has also
commenced retail activities in India. The company has opened more than 200
workshops/service centres across India, and a slightly lesser number of sales
outlets. The next launch from the company will be the new-generation Honda City, which will be sold alongside the
current generation model. The exact launch date hasn't been announced yet but
it should be launched in June 2020 itself.
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