By splitting regions and renewing regional chiefs, Toyota is pushing decisions closer to markets that differ in growth and challenges
Toyota will create a company-wide Toyota Robotics organisation and fold its carbon neutral engineering centre into its Powertrain Company in a restructuring that takes effect on 1 January 2027. New chief executives will run its North American, Chinese and Asian regions, while India and the Middle East will become a region of their own.
Takefumi Shiga, Operating Officer and Chief Production Officer, will lead the robotics unit, gathering expertise and staff now spread across the business. Placing it under the production chief ties robot development to factory needs, and Toyota now ranks robotics as a core pillar of its future business.
The carbon neutral centre’s engineers will join powertrain planning, advanced and mass production development, concentrating on hybrid systems, which Toyota says will help it keep offering customers a range of options. Its Frontier Research Center will likewise be absorbed by the Advanced R&D and Engineering Company and the Software Development Center.
Mark Templin will head North America, Sukenaga Ota China and Masando Hashimoto Asia, as their predecessors become Senior Fellows. Masakazu Yoshimura will lead India & Middle East, where a new Indian plant is planned, and Takanori Azuma the separate East Asia & Oceania Region.
Chairman Akio Toyoda will personally lead a new Toyota Philosophy and Education Group devoted to developing people. Administration, human resources and accounting will merge into a single Kanri Group.
Source: Toyota
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