Flowchart in other fields

How flowcharts are used in numerous other fields

Beyond computer programming, flowcharts have many uses in many diverse fields.
In any field:
  • Document and analyze a process.
  • Standardize a process for efficiency and quality.
  • Communicate a process for training or understanding by other parts of the organization.
  • Identify bottlenecks, redundancies and unnecessary steps in a process and improve it.
Education:
  • Plan coursework and academic requirements.
  • Create a lesson plan or oral presentation.
  • Organize a group or individual project.
  • Show a legal or civil process, like voter registration.
  • Plan and structure creative writing, like lyrics or poetry.
  • Demonstrate character development for literature and film.
  • Represent the flow of algorithms or logic puzzles.
  • Understand a scientific process, like the Krebs cycle.
  • Chart an anatomical process, such as digestion.
  • Map out symptoms and treatment for diseases/disorders.
  • Communicate hypotheses and theories, like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Sales and marketing:
  • Plot out the flow of a survey.
  • Chart a sales process.
  • Plan research strategies.
  • Show registration flows.
  • Disseminate communication policies, like an emergency PR plan.
user registration flowchart
Business:
  • Understand order and procurement processes.
  • Represent an employee’s tasks or daily routine.
  • Understand the paths that users take on a website or in a store.
  • Develop a business plan or product realization plan.
  • Document a process in preparation for an audit, including for regulatory compliance, such as under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  • Document a process in preparation for a sale or consolidation.
business flowchart
Manufacturing:
  • Denote the physical or chemical makeup of a product.
  • Illustrate the manufacturing process from beginning to end.
  • Discover and solve inefficiencies in a manufacturing or procurement process.
Engineering:
  • Represent process flows or system flows.
  • Design and update chemical and plant processes.
  • Assess the life cycle of a structure.
  • Chart a reverse-engineering flow.
  • Demonstrate the design and prototype phase of a new structure or product.

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