Yokoten

Yokoten is a Japanese term for deploying concepts, ideas, or policies horizontally across a company. It is used to make sure that a finding at one location is checked and applied at all other relevant locations. The document illustrates it with a defective valve found on one machine: yokoten is the process of examining all similar valves in the facility and in other relevant facilities for the same defect.

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Origin	Japan

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Japanese term for deploying concepts, ideas, or policies horizontally across the company.
Applied example: a defective valve found on one machine triggers examination of all similar valves in the facility and other relevant facilities for the same defect.
The document cross-references Strategy Deployment; no matching reference entry is available.