In a case that you do not have MS Visio licence, perhaps you can try:

https://www.diagrams.net/

free, high quality diagramming software for flowcharts or diagrams, which allow online collaboration as well...

I've never needed anything more sophisticated than MS Powerpoint, which is available and familiar to many PC users and should suffice for straightforward flowcharts or diagrams. It is quite flexible and can also produce something more complicated with more time and effort. Although the preset SmartArt graphics include ideas for flowcharts, hierarchies, relationships, etc, its probably better to create custom diagrams from scratch. It may help to draw what you want the end result to look like on paper first, then recreate and arrange the elements in Powerpoint. You can set the slide size (design area) to whatever size you want.

David Neil Reza Hassani Anton Vrdoljak I appreciate your valuable suggestions. Thanks a lot.

Dear Babak Jamshidi, I totally agree with the other members, you can simply take advantage of the capabilities of MS PowerPoint especially in the 2019 edition with its additional amazing features, or try MS Visio for more professional designs.

With Regards

Dear Babak,

Don't be limited by the standard tools MS Excel offers either. With some effort and workarounds, its possible to create many more and better designed charts than you could ever imagine. I never look any further than Jon Peltier's excellent site https://peltiertech.com/, where there are many worked examples that its worth taking the time to follow and master. I find myself reusing these hacks all the time now.

Best Regards,

David

Hi Babak,

Some time ago, I researched software applications and packages that support drawing flow charts and in particular value stream diagrams. Many of these are available for free and extend software such as Microsoft Excel and Visio (as indicated below by the annotations [a] and [b], respectively).

Here is a list (from 2017, some of the links seem to be not reachable anymore, yet with the name of the packages you should find the correct page):

• Bluespring LeanView 6.1 [b] [http://www.bluespring.com/value-stream-mapping]
• BreezeTree FlowBreeze 4.3 [a] [http://www.breezetree.com/flowcharting-software/]
• ConceptDraw PRO 10, VSM Solution [http://www.conceptdraw.com/solution-park/business-value-stream-mapping/]
• Creately, VSM Tool [http://creately.com/value-stream-mapping-tool]
• Edraw Max 8.4, VSM Solution [http://www.edrawsoft.com/valuestreammapping.php]
• eVSM 9 [b] [http://evsm.com/]
• iFakt VSM [http://www.ifakt.de/software/vsm/]
• iGrafx FlowCharter [http://www.igrafx.com/gl/products/process-modeling-analysis/flowcharter]
• Lean Enterprise Institute, VSM Icons [a] [http://www.lean.org/common/display/?o=866]
• Leanpilot 1.8.5 [http://www.leanpilot.com/]
• Lucidchart, VSM Shapes and Templates [http://www.lucidchart.com/pages/examples/value-stream-mapping]
• Paul Herber, VSM Shapes Stencil and Template [b] [http://www.paulherber.co.uk/visio-value-stream-map/]
• QI Macros, VSM Template [a] [http://www.qimacros.com/quality-tools/value-stream-map/]
• SmartDraw 2016, Lean Diagrams [http://www.smartdraw.com/value-stream-map/]
• Systems2win, VSM Template [a] [http://www.systems2win.com/solutions/value-stream-mapping-template.htm]

Legend:

[a, b] Symbol library, extends [a] Microsoft Excel and [b] Microsoft Visio, respectively

Kind regards

Christian

Dear Christian A. Hochmuth I am grateful for your great answer. It was extremely helpful.

You can use WBS software. You can design a flowchart with it and also connect it with MSP software.But the best software for this is familiar with AutoCAD