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also known as Layout Diagram, spaghetti map, or Standard Work Chart
The Layout Diagram template can be used for simple floor planning purposes, but it really shines as a spaghetti mapping tool for Lean process improvement.
You start out by drawing a spaghetti diagram of your current "as is" process, and then copy it to serve as a starting point for rearranging a spaghetti diagram of your "to be" process.
Since these tools are priced for team use, and your people already own and know how to use Microsoft Excel... they have a much higher probability of actually using this powerful Lean Six Sigma tool.
The greatest power of your spaghetti diagram is when you print it out and post it on the shop floor along with printed Standard Work Instructions. Each circled number on the spaghetti map diagram corresponds with the operation sequence number on the Standard Work Combination Sheet. And you can easily paste your Layout Diagram right on the same page with your Standard Work Sheet - which then gets printed and taped up right in front of each worker at their work station - to remind people of the right way to do each job - thereby eliminating costly quality mistakes.
The spaghetti diagram is even more effective when used with the rest of the lean, kaizen, and business process improvement templates. Just think of how different your continuous improvement program results might be if your leaders could spend more time actually improving processes - rather holing up in their office "inventing a template for that".
And once your people learn how to use any one of the Excel drawing templates, then they are fully trained to use every one of the other powerful drawing tools - like the Swim Lane Flow Chart and the Value Stream Map.
So why spend thousands of dollars for expensive drawing software? When you can have an Excel drawing tool that does almost everything that Visio can do.
And why ask your valuable people to waste their time trying to learn proprietary drawing software? When they could be learning to truly master the tool they already own and know something about.
Excel has far more drawing capabilities than most people realize. Check out our free on-line training videos to learn more.
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This Spaghetti Diagram template comes bundled with the rest of the Process Engineering tools as part of the Discount Bundle |
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