PROCESS CHART SYMBOLS

The recording of the fact about job or operation on process chart is made much easier by the use of a set of five
standard symbol, with together serve to represent all the different types activity or event likely to be encountered in
any factory or office. They thus serve as very convenient, widely understood type of shorthand, saving a lot of
writing and helping to show clearly just what is happening in the sequence being recorded.
The two principle activity in the process are operation and inspection. These were represented by the following
symbols.
OPERATION
Indicates the main steps in process, method or procedure, usually the part, material or product concerned is modified
or changed during the operation.
INSPECTION
Indicates an inspection for quality and / or cheak for quality.
TRANSPORT
Indicates the movement of workers, material or equipment from place to place.
TEMPORARY STORAGE OR DELAY
Indicates a delay in sequence of event: for example, work waiting between consecutive operation or any object laid
aside temporarily without record until required.
PERMANANT STORAGE
Indicates a controlled storage in which material is received into or issued from a stores under some form of
authorization; or an item is retained for reference purposes.
FLOW PROCESS CHARTS
A flow process chart is a process chart setting out the sequence of the flow of a product or a procedure by recording
all events under review using appropriate process chart symbols.
Flow process chart - Man type: a flow process chart which records what the worker does.
Flow process chart - Material type: a flow process chart which records how material is handled or treated.
Flow process chart - Equipment type: a flow process chart which records how the equipment is used.

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