Toyota Motor North America is shifting its automation agenda into high gear with a range of tools centered on the cloud as part of a strategy to reap savings and evolve toward data-informed operations. Credit: Brian Kursar / Toyota Motor North America Automation has long been the lifeblood of IT work. In pockets throughout the organization, the call to automate processes has always been a key driver of IT agendas, whether it be to overhaul targeted processes within the sales or marketing function, or within IT itself. But the rise of digital capabilities such as AI and robotic process automation , along with the drive to digitize operations across the enterprise via digital transformation , has pushed some IT organizations’ automation agendas into overdrive, heralding a new era of “hyperautomation,” in which all facets of business operations, from mundane tasks, to product development, to manufacturing, are viewed as internetworked processes ripe for automation gains. Toyota Motor North America, which has embraced the cloud for more than 20 years, is one such enterprise pursuing hyperautomation. Within the past three to four years, the company has been relying more heavily on Amazon Web Services — as well as many independent automation […]