Toyota Audit Finds ‘Misunderstanding’ With Suppliers
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Toyota Motor Corp. set out to audit suppliers in North America following its biggest recall crisis and discovered testing of components wasn’t as rigorous as it expected.
Toyota is a third of the way through audits of suppliers of “the highest priority” parts, and some suppliers believed to be testing products four times a year were only doing so once a year, Dino Triantafyllos, vice president of North American product quality, said yesterday.