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Spaghetti diagram templates
The lean motion study: place stations on a floor plan, trace the path a person, patient or part actually takes, and the engine measures it — total travel distance, per-leg distances, revisit counts and the crossings that mark a layout fighting its own flow. Multiple traced actors overlay in distinct colours so a before/after layout change is one figure, with the metres saved computed rather than claimed.
Spaghetti — Nurse Motion Study, Acute Ward
Night-shift round for two nurses on a 24-metre acute ward: 211 m walked over 24 legs with 13 route crossings, and moving the clean store and the drugs cupboard beside the nurse base takes 44.8 m — 21% of the walking — out of the round.
Lean & FlowSpaghetti — Warehouse Pick Round
Three operators on a 60-metre chilled pick face walk 553 m over 18 legs with 36 route crossings; re-slotting the fast movers and sequencing the pick list by aisle removes 202 m, 37% of the walking, and two-thirds of the crossings.
Operations & OpsSpaghetti — Restaurant Kitchen Line
One order cycle on a 9-metre kitchen line, tracking a chef de partie, a commis and a kitchen porter through 23 legs and 70.2 m of walking, with the grill-to-pass leg worked five times and the porter crossing the commis four times.
Lean & FlowSpaghetti — Machine Shop Cell Rebuild
Two operators in a straight-line pump assembly cell walk 117 m over 17 legs with 10 route crossings; folding the same machines into a U with the material store presented in the middle cuts that to 40.5 m, a 65% saving, and removes every crossing.
Lean & FlowSpaghetti — Supermarket Shopper Trip
Two customers, the same basket, the same 44-metre store: the shopper working a meal-by-meal list covers 189 m and crosses their own trail eight times, while the one working store order walks 90.6 m — both trips measured in one figure.
Business & StrategySpaghetti — Office Coffee and Print Runs
A morning of interruptions on an open-plan floor: three staff make 22 short trips to the printer, the kitchen, the post point and a meeting room, adding up to 299 m of walking, with the analyst's desk-to-kitchen leg alone walked four times.
Operations & OpsSpaghetti — Aircraft Turnaround, Stand 14
A narrowbody turnaround measured across an 80-metre stand: four ground-handling crews cover 516 m over 24 legs, and the 26 crossings mark every place where baggage, catering and refuelling are working the same apron at the same time.
Geo & SpatialSpaghetti — Hotel Housekeeping Round
One room attendant servicing seven bedrooms off a 46-metre corridor walks 532 m in a single round, six of those legs to the linen store at the far end; pre-stocking the trolley and opening a mid-floor cupboard saves 282 m, 53% of the round.
Operations & OpsSpaghetti — Pathology Sample Handling
Morning sample run in an 18-metre blood sciences lab: three staff move specimens between reception, the centrifuge, two analysers and cold storage over 23 legs and 126 m, with 16 crossings clustered around the aliquot bench.
Lean & FlowSpaghetti — Construction Site Logistics
A morning on a 96-metre housing plot: a groundworker, a steel fixer and a labourer cover 855 m over 27 legs between the gate, the laydown area, the mixer and block C, with the store-to-skip haul walked four times.
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