The global IT outage that hit industries across the world today has affected automotive manufacturing across the world, causing problems for the automotive manufacturing industry globally.

Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen S-Class assembly

Everstream Analytics has reported that Mercedes-Benz’s plant in Sindelfingen has had to partically reduce production

One of the biggest IT outages ever was reported by Microsoft’s Windows 10 users across the world from around 18:00 Eastern Time 18th July, due to a faulty content update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. The company, based in the US, has since said that the problem has been identified and a fix has been deployed, although widespread chaos is still affecting industries, including ports and airports.

Everstream Analytics told AMS that operational disruptions have been confirmed at automotive manufacturing plants across the globe, confirming that Mercedes-Benz has had to announce production halts at some of its plants.

“Production disruption announcements in different industries are starting to roll in, but it may be several hours before we can identify industry trends,” Jena Santoro, senior manager of Global Risk Intelligence, Everstream Analytics told AMS. “Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany announced a partial reduction in production earlier this morning, and the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain has announced production halts within the last hour.

“This isn’t yet enough information to say that the automotive sector in general will see disproportionate impacts compared to other sectors, but we are watching closely.”

We will update this story as news develops. 

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