flowchart Archives - Quality During Design

Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts

How do we get design inputs from flowcharting? Let’s talk about flowcharting as one method for engineering to gather design inputs.

Using SIPOC to Get Started

SIPOC diagrams are a great first step for our team in understanding the key people and elements to our process.

Choosing Quality Tools (Mind Map vs. Flowchart vs. Spaghetti Diagram)

Within our quality toolbox, there are a lot of graphical organizers. Some are better at fulfilling different goals than others. If we have a goal in mind, then we may choose a certain tool. However, we don’t want analysis paralysis about which tool is best to stop us from using any tool at all. I share my 3 general guidelines about choosing a graphical quality tool, how to draw them, and…

Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

Flowcharting isn’t just useful for manufacturing processes. We can use them in lots of ways to help us with design of products and to identify quality characteristics. After all, products are used by people, and the way in which they use them is a process. compare ideal vs. actual flowcharts identify where there is disagreement…