What is a Flow Chart ? Process Flow Diagram or Chart its use,PFC Symbol and Example.

What is a Flow Chart ? Process Flow Diagram or Chart its use,PFC Symbol and Example.

What is Process Flow Chart / Diagram (PFC/PFD)

PFC is chart or diagrams that show us a clear picture of step by step process in sequential order. Or in simple words process flow chart or diagram is a chart or sheet which shows us the step wise process of making a part/component from material inward to dispatch. Developing a flow chart is one of the best activity for process Improvement effort.

Process Flow Chart/Diagram is one of the important 7 QCTools, as everyone knows 7QC tools are used for problem solving, monitoring and analysing the process data. It is true in an organisation 95% quality related problem is resolved by using 7QC Tools.

Flow Chart are mainly used in industrial Engineering (IE) to structure the step wise process, but today flowchart are used in other purpose in manufacturing,chemical,engineering,education,science and government etc.

There are different types of flow chart like Process Flow Diagram, Workflow Diagram, Yes/No Flow Charts, and Data Flow Diagram etc.

Use and purpose of Flow Chart

A Process Flow Chart/Diagram has multiple use and purposes as below

• For Planning a New Project

• For Process Documentation

• For Process Improvement Study

• To show everyone how involved in process that how the process and part is manufacturer

• For Audit a process to avoid inefficiencies

• To create a new process

• To avoid unnecessary steps and bottleneck from any process

• To standardise a process for repeatability

• To remove and identify non-value adding operations

• To understand the flow of an process

• It helps us for decision making           

• It highlights the important step of any process 

• In this chart we are using define process symbol

Used Symbols For Making a Process Flow Chart or Diagram

     Example of Detailed Process Flow Chart
In every organisation Process Flow Chart or diagram template is different as per 
there product categories but the used Process flow symbol is commonly same in 
every types of industry here we show you two types of product Process Flow Chart
template.Make sure your operation number and name is same in all linked
PPAP Document like Process Flow Chart,Control Plan and Process Failure Mode 
and Effect Analysis.

Details Process Flow Diagram of a Painted Steel Bracket

What is Control Plan Level Of Control Plan
Process Flow Chart Template

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