How to build a spaghetti chart to see and reduce waste.

1. How to build a
Spaghetti Chart
and facilitate
waste reduction

2. Created by Tom Curtis 2011
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3. If you connected the steps of your
process would it look like this?

4. The How To

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24 3 4 3 4
5
it is.
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Doing Spaghetti Charts are
like doing dot-to-dots.

6. 1
Mark where your process starts.

7. 1
2
Mark the next activity spot
and connect.

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5 3
1
6
4 2
Continue through the process.

9. The Review

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5 3
1
6
4 X
2
Are there any steps that can
be removed?

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5 3
1
6
2X
4
Are there any steps that can
be reordered?

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1 5 3
2X
4
Are there any steps that can
be physically moved?

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1 4 3
2
Renumber steps and
document the new process.

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6 5 5
1 4 3
1
2 6
4 2
Compare Before and After