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Three parate but related recalls of automobiles by Toyota Motor Corporation occurred at the end of 2009 and start of 2010. Toyota initiated the recalls, the first two with the assistance of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), after reports that veral vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. The first recall, on November 2, 2009, was to correct a possible incursion of an incorrect or out-of-place front driver's side floor mat into the foot pedal well, which can cau pedal entrapment. The cond recall, on January 21, 2010, was begun after some crashes were shown not to have been caud by floor mat incursion. This latter defect was identified as a possible mechanical sticking of the accelerator pedal causing unintended acceleration, referred to as Sticking Accelerator Pedal by Toyota. The original action was initiated by Toyota in their Defect Information Report, dated October 5, 2009, amended January 27, 2010. Following t
he floor mat and accelerator pedal recalls, Toyota also issued a parate recall for hybrid anti-lock brake software in February 2010.
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PERSONAL VIEW:
Reasons of Toyota vehicle recalls:
1. The technique is incomplete.
REFERENCE: Toyota Recall: Four Different Caus. So which is it?
By E. Sizemore / February 3, 2010
Toward the end of last summer (September 30, 2009) we reported that Toyota was recalling 3.8 million cars and trucks made between 2005 and 2010. At the time, the company claimed this was merely a problem with “accessory all-weather floor mats” sold in some models. In other words, it had nothing to do with the vehicle itlf. The remedy was simply to remove the driver-side floor mat.
Shortly after, in late November, we reported on another Toyota announcement that they would “fix” the problem by installing shorter accelerators in the recalled Toyota and Lexus vehicles. So it wasn’t a poorly designed floor mat, but a gas pedal that was too long?
Skip forward to January of 2010 and things begin to heat up for Toyota. They announced a recall on millions of vehicles made between 2005 and 2010 becau of a mechanical problem with the accelerator.
And just today (February 2nd, 2010) CNN is reporting that federal investigators are looking into whether the sticking accelerators are a result of a mechanical problem or if the issue has to do with the electrical system – in which ca, the recent fix announced by Toyota would not actually be addressing the problem
We have an open question for Toyota: Is it the all-weather floor mat accessory, the gas pedal length, mechanical friction in the accelerator asmbly, or an electrical problem? Or are they parate issues?
But in my opinion, the technical matter is just superficial.
2. Rapid expansion and cost reduction uncoordinated.
a) Rapid expansion
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b) Toyota’s production rapidly incread. Compared with 1995,Toyota's overas production incread by 500,000 in the 2000.In 2005,Toyota overas production incread from 1.75 million to 3.57 million and the increa amounted to1.82 million. In contrast the number 捉迷藏英文of努力加油的英文 national production in Japan is little changed.
c) The cost reduction plan.
In 2000 when Toyota expanded production in North America, Europe and Asia, procurement became more important. To eliminated up lication of procurement, Toyota began the implementation of免费个人简历 a cost-cutting plan named CCC21 of large-scale compression costs (in terms of design, production, procurement and fixed costs), the goal is to make 180 parts price reduced by 一分一段表查询30%.
d) The result of combination of rapid expansion and cost reduction plan is that the quality of Toyota cars were lower than standard, resulting the recall event. 不能忘却的历史In order to save costs, the production line is ud around the world .In the way new models were unable to fully match with installation kit, leading to the advent of curity risks.
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3. Toyota excellent quality culture is missing.
Toyota's quality culture was famous for its "good faith".
In the past years, Toyota was devoted to link the interests of the customers with companies. Every internal quality improvement was aimed to benefit both the enterpri and global customers. The quality inspection during production process was extremely careful and was controlled in every process, focusing on building the n of quality of each employee and finding the quality problems timely.
In order to reduce costs, Toyota expanded production without enough road test in a variety of environments, resulting the problems that the mats or accelerator pedal were not thoughtful in the design process. Extensive u of generic parts in models instead ofparts designed to fit their own parts made the vehicle full of hidden dangers, leading to massive recall on a global scale.
