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Principles of lean to optimize business outcomes
Published in Patricia Melton Allen, Frances E. Alston, Emily Millikin DeKerchove, Peak Performance, 2019
Patricia Melton Allen, Frances E. Alston, Emily Millikin DeKerchove
A swim-lane diagram is a type of flowchart, also known as a cross-functional flowchart, that depicts a process from start to finish, and divides the steps into groupings to help distinguish which team, group, or workers are responsible for each set of actions. The lanes are columns that keep actions separated visually from each other. A swim-lane helps make responsibilities more predominant than a typical flowchart. As depicted in Figure 2.12, a swim-lane diagram allows one to see not only the flow of the process but also the locations when responsibilities are transferred from one worker to another. Knowing which organization or worker is responsible for a particular step can help speed up implementation of corrective actions and eliminate delay and bottlenecks in the process. This method is also useful in helping organizations work cohesively together because each will understand what the other organization does to contribute to the overall process. This method can also identify redundancies and duplications, gaps, and communications issues between organizations or teams.
Value Stream Mapping
Published in Jody Crane, Chuck Noon, The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement, 2019
A special form of process flow mapping is called a swim lane diagram. Swim lane diagrams enable the user to communicate where or with whom processes occur. For instance, you may have four people involved in your fast track: a tech, a unit secretary, a nurse, and a doctor. In a swim lane diagram, the people (or places) involved in the process would be delineated either vertically or horizontally on the top or side of the page, and the process flow map is arranged in such a way that each step is placed in the same lane as the operator that performs the step (or the place where the step occurs). This gives the person viewing the flow map a better understanding of the process. Figure 2.10 is an example of a swim lane diagram.
Software Design
Published in Leanna Rierson, Developing Safety-Critical Software, 2017
Swimlane diagram—a variation of the activity diagram; it shows the flow of activities described by the use case and simultaneously indicates which actor is responsible for the action described by an activity. It basically shows the activities of each actor in a parallel fashion.
An analysis of CARE Zimbabwe’s emergency response process flow in the Masvingo Province through Lean Six Sigma tools
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2022
Jaime Andrés Castañeda, Annel Zodzi, Paulo Gonçalves, Liliana Rivera
Unlike value stream mapping, swim lane diagrams help visualising nonlinear processes. They are a process flow chart; however, unlike a normal process flow chart, the lanes of the diagram allow to represent different entities (departments/offices/functions/etc.) Swim lane diagrams are thus helpful to visualise flows that involve separate entities that are not necessarily working in a linear flow (Roser 2015).