{"id":"yokoten","model_id":"Yokoten","name":"Yokoten","summary":"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.","study_notes":["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."],"safety_notes":[],"sources":[{"url":"https://www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/yokoten/","title":"Yokoten - Lean Enterprise Institute","accessed":"2026-10-25"}],"verification":{"status":"source_checked","checked_at":"2026-10-25","values":2,"method":"llm_source_check"},"updated_at":"2026-10-25","type":"operational","spec":{"kind":"methodology","origin":"Japan","related":[]},"url":"https://machineschema.com/operational/yokoten","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}