The 'Best of the Best' Process Map Format

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

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

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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.

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.

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

Cheers,
Mr.Happy

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.


View attachment One page flow template.vsd

View attachment TURTLE PROCESS DIAGRAM.vsd

View attachment example.vsd

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.

Marc,

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

Tom

I have attached a production process flow that I did in Excel...it only outlines the value-added activities and I think it is pretty straight-forward from an overhead view. We also have work instructions which go deeper into each activity outlined in blue.

Brian

Well, I think Access (database) could be a nice tool to deal with lots of data, though I never have had time to set up such a base :/

I attached a picture of a dynamic 3D model, which is kind of impossible to make on static 2D, but still I tried, lol. Don`t worry about the details, it is just for inspiration, and perhaps to discuss the use of 3D models, do we really need it, when is it to complex!? (The model was not made for specific process flow, but for product quality and some SCM).