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Spaghetti Diagram

Draw the area, drop the stations, then trace the travel. The distance adds itself up as you go, which is usually the moment the room goes quiet.

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Click the canvas to drop a numbered station. Then click stations in the order the operator visits them and each leg is drawn and measured. Set the scale first so the distances mean something.

Follow one operator or one part, for whole cycles. A spaghetti diagram of an average is a drawing of nobody.

Area or cell

Operator or part followed

Scale feet across the full width

Cycles per shift

Walking pace ft / sec

Click the grid to drop station 1.

Stations0placed

Legs traced0moves in sequence

Distance per cycle0feet

Per shift0feet walked

Walk time0min / shift

What the picture shows

Write it down before the drawing gets tidied up

Crossings, backtracks and the longest single trip

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Spaghetti Diagram

What the picture shows

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