Contenido

Se trata de la más común y práctica entre todas las clases de diagramas de flujo. Describe el flujo de información en un ente u organización, sus procesos, sistemas administrativos y de control. Permite la impresión visual de los procedimientos y una clara y lógica interpretación.

Diagram symbols and rules

According to the regulations, the budget flow is from left to right and from top to bottom, with the use of arrows being optional. When the direction is reversed (from right to left or from bottom to top), the use of the arrow is mandatory.[7]​.

The authorship of the flowchart is initially somewhat diffuse. The structured method for graphically documenting a process as a flow of successive and alternative steps, the "flow chart process", was presented by Frank Gilbreth, at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in 1921, under the statement of "Process Graphics - First Steps in Finding the Best Way". These Gilbreth tools quickly found a place in industrial engineering programs.

In the early 1930s, an industrial engineer, Allan H. Mogensen began training business people in Lake Placid, New York, including the use of the flow chart. Art Spinanger, an attendee of Mogesen's classes, used the tools in his work at Procter & Gamble, where he developed his “Methodical Staged Change Program.” Another attendee of the group of graduates in 1944, Ben S. Graham, director of engineering at Formcraft Standard Register Corporation, adapted the process flow chart to the processing of information in his company. And developed the process graph of multiple flows on multiple screens, documents, and their relationships. In 1947, ASME adopted a set of symbols derived from Gilbreth's original work as the ASME Standard for Process Charts (prepared by Mishad, Ramsan, and Raiaan).

However, as Douglas Hartree explains, it was originally Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann who developed the flowchart (initially called "diagram") to plan computer programs. The original flow programming tables of Goldstine and von Neumann appear in an unpublished report, "Planning and Coding Problems of an Electronic Computing Instrument, Part II, Volume 1" (1947), reproduced in von Neumann's Complete Works.

Flowcharts were initially a popular means of describing computer algorithms, and are still used for this purpose.

Tools such as UML activity diagrams can be considered as evolutions of the flowchart.

In the 1970s the popularity of flowcharts as a computer science method decreased, with new hardware and new third-generation programming languages. And on the other hand, they became common instruments in the business world. They are a concise, readable and practical expression of algorithms. They are currently applied in many fields of knowledge, especially as simplification and logical expression of processes, etc.

Currently there is a large amount of software for creating flowcharts. The most common programs for creating flowcharts are listed below.

There are also applications that allow, once a creator has designed the flowchart, an end user to use it and, based on the options they choose, be shown the following stages until reaching a final result. An example of this type of application is iBoske").

Common shapes

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established standards for flowcharts and their symbols in the 1960s.[3]​ The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted ANSI symbols in 1970.[4]​ The current standard, ISO 5807, was revised in 1985.[5]​.

Contenido

Se trata de la más común y práctica entre todas las clases de diagramas de flujo. Describe el flujo de información en un ente u organización, sus procesos, sistemas administrativos y de control. Permite la impresión visual de los procedimientos y una clara y lógica interpretación.

Diagram symbols and rules

According to the regulations, the budget flow is from left to right and from top to bottom, with the use of arrows being optional. When the direction is reversed (from right to left or from bottom to top), the use of the arrow is mandatory.[7]​.

The authorship of the flowchart is initially somewhat diffuse. The structured method for graphically documenting a process as a flow of successive and alternative steps, the "flow chart process", was presented by Frank Gilbreth, at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in 1921, under the statement of "Process Graphics - First Steps in Finding the Best Way". These Gilbreth tools quickly found a place in industrial engineering programs.

In the early 1930s, an industrial engineer, Allan H. Mogensen began training business people in Lake Placid, New York, including the use of the flow chart. Art Spinanger, an attendee of Mogesen's classes, used the tools in his work at Procter & Gamble, where he developed his “Methodical Staged Change Program.” Another attendee of the group of graduates in 1944, Ben S. Graham, director of engineering at Formcraft Standard Register Corporation, adapted the process flow chart to the processing of information in his company. And developed the process graph of multiple flows on multiple screens, documents, and their relationships. In 1947, ASME adopted a set of symbols derived from Gilbreth's original work as the ASME Standard for Process Charts (prepared by Mishad, Ramsan, and Raiaan).

However, as Douglas Hartree explains, it was originally Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann who developed the flowchart (initially called "diagram") to plan computer programs. The original flow programming tables of Goldstine and von Neumann appear in an unpublished report, "Planning and Coding Problems of an Electronic Computing Instrument, Part II, Volume 1" (1947), reproduced in von Neumann's Complete Works.

Flowcharts were initially a popular means of describing computer algorithms, and are still used for this purpose.

Tools such as UML activity diagrams can be considered as evolutions of the flowchart.

In the 1970s the popularity of flowcharts as a computer science method decreased, with new hardware and new third-generation programming languages. And on the other hand, they became common instruments in the business world. They are a concise, readable and practical expression of algorithms. They are currently applied in many fields of knowledge, especially as simplification and logical expression of processes, etc.

Currently there is a large amount of software for creating flowcharts. The most common programs for creating flowcharts are listed below.

There are also applications that allow, once a creator has designed the flowchart, an end user to use it and, based on the options they choose, be shown the following stages until reaching a final result. An example of this type of application is iBoske").