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Overview Charts
Overview Charts are useful for focusing on a particular aspect of a
process for presentation and for supporting detail-level analysis.
They offer a different perspective, like adding color to a chart.
An Overview Chart displays all the Item flows and their
interrelationships, but does not show all the detail-level steps.
You can select any of the symbols that you want to keep in the chart.
Retaining Transports will enable the chart reader to easily see where
the handoffs occur in the process. Retaining Inspections will show
where control points occur in the process. Retaining Handles and
Delays can highlight areas of potential improvement in the speed of a
process. Leaving just the Origination and Add/Alter symbols in the
chart provides a focus on value-added that is useful from a system
development standpoint. This can also be useful in a standardization
project. When you have separate facilities doing nearly the same work,
differences in staff size and layout will likely not be conducive to
identical processes, but when you "back off" to look at items and
value-added, the processes can be very close -- and major differences
will stand out.
If the improved process includes a significant reduction in one type
of symbol, before and after charts with just that symbol can make a
dramatic visual statement in a presentation.The Overview Chart Selection
window lets you select the symbols you want to keep in the Overview Chart
and also provides an option to compress the chart horizontally.
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