The 'Best of the Best' Process Map Format

[Brizilla]

Here are examples of a Procedure and a Dept. Work instruction. in Map form.

[Hodgy Hotsauce]

Thanks, Bizilla (spelling?) The charts will be a great resource!

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[AirdrieQPA]

I like the basic idea, I am pitching to senior management next week that we should be moving to a process based QMS, our auditor has been slamming our fingers in the door (repeatedly) as they have difficulty identifying our processes.

[AirdrieQPA]

I would like to offer a process map that we are tinkering with at my company, we have many complexities in our processes as we have to meet several regualtory body requirments, or maybe we just made the complex for the sake of making them complex, I am still out on that but here we go. The two process are in the intial mapping phase and there are corresponding standard work flows and procedures to accompany both. Anything with in the grey boxes is the process proper and those activities outside are the process interactions, which include our many ERP interfaces.

[Mr.Happy]

Just another one, it is just a main flow for 3 step machining.

Cheers,
Mr.Happy

[KBYoung]

Marc,

I have been using a "Turtle diagran and flow done in "Visio" and as they are templates it is a simple copy to put them in Word.


One page flow template.vsd

TURTLE PROCESS DIAGRAM.vsd

example.vsd

[Marc]

Thanks for linking to the attachments. We all appreciate it!

Yes - Visio is essentially Microsoft and integrates into Microsoft documents. On the other hand, programs such as SmartDraw also integrate into Microsoft documents.

[TeeQ1]

Marc,

Have you seen the SIPOC table that Duke Okes included in his latest book, Performance Metrics? I think it is really good.

Tom