Lean Six Sigma Diagram Software

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a well-known in all over the world methodology of quality improvement and business perfection. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software is a powerful Lean Six Sigma Diagram Software thanks to the included Value Stream Mapping solution from the Quality Management Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphical representation of process, algorithm, workflow or step-by-step solution of the problem. It shows the steps as boxes of various kinds and connects them by arrows in a defined order depicting a flow. There are twelve main Flowchart types: Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram (BPMN), Cross Functional Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram (DFD), IDEF (Integrated DEFinition) Flowchart, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram, Influence Diagram (ID), Swimlane Flowchart, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Specification and Description Language (SDL) Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, Workflow Diagram. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design a Flowchart of any of these types. This solution offers a lot of special predesigned vector symbols for each of these widely used notations. They will make the drawing process of Flowcharts much easier than ever. Pay also attention for the included collection of ready Flowchart examples, samples and quick-start templates. This is business process improvement tools. If you are looking for MS Visio for your Mac, then you are out of luck, because it hasn't been released yet. However, you can use Visio alternatives that can successfully replace its functions. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is an alternative to MS Visio for Mac that provides powerful features and intuitive user interface for the same.

Audit Flowchart Symbols

The audit is a complex process consisting of defined quantity of steps, which have as a final goal the ensuring of success of a certain business project. It includes the independent examination of data, statements and financial performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. It is convenient to construct the Audit Flowcharts or Audit Diagrams for visual representation and structuring the audit processes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software enhanced with Audit Flowcharts solution from the Finance and Accounting area of ConceptDraw Solution Park effectively helps to draw the Audit Diagrams for accounting, finance and money management, the Audit Flowcharts for fiscal information tracking, financial inventories and documenting Six Sigma, the decision making Flow Charts, etc. This solution provides the powerful drawing tools, numerous templates and samples, and large quantity of vector audit flowchart symbols that greatly facilitate the process of representation the audit steps and audit results, and designing efficient and visually appealing Audit Flowcharts.

Quality Improvement

Constant improvement of key performance indicators that are related to quality is a step in the right direction for a company interested in market growth.

6 sigma

6 Sigma is a popular management concept aimed at improving the quality of work of an organization or individual units and at continuous perfection the processes. The improvement of organization's activities may be executed through the radical changes or in consequence to minor regular improvements. The main purposes of these improvements may be increasing of product safety, improvement quality, decreasing the quantity of defects, shorter the manufacturing cycle, improvement the workplaces, reducing costs, etc. Currently, Six Sigma is applied by organizations of various activity spheres, from the industrial enterprises to the banks. 6 Sigma uses a set of different tools of quality for realizing the improvements and control the processes. Each organization applies its own set of tools, such as Pareto chart, Ishikawa diagram, Tree diagram, etc. Solutions from the Quality area of ConceptDraw Solution Park support quality and manufacturing managers with powerful visualization tools for production quality control and improvement, and supply the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with Quality Management Mind Maps. This map illustrates how the Six Sigma methodology can be represented as a Mind Map.

Quality Mind Maps - samples and templates

Use samples and templates to describe your own quality processes, brainstorm, and structure quality issues.

Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful - you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

Constant improvement of key performance indicators

There are available tool to lend a fresh look to quality procedures - ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

Total Quality Management

The desire to encourage the production of competitive goods led to the establishment of new method of continuous quality improvement of all organizational processes, production and service. This method successfully launched in Japan and the USA was named Total Quality Management (TQM). Now, the TQM is a dynamically developed concept, a strategic approach to management that is based on manufacturing goods or services of the best quality among innovative counterparts from the point of view of consumers. The main idea of TQM is that the company should work not only on the product quality, but also on the quality of company's work, including the work of staff. The constant parallel improvement of product quality, quality of organization processes, level of qualification the personnel allow to achieve more rapid and effective business development. Mind Maps are effective in a field of quality management and allow to structure all key quality points on one page. This Mind Map designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software illustrates the well-known Total Quality Management (TQM) methodology.