A routing diagram or route diagram in the field of
management engineering is a type of
diagram
A diagram is a symbolic Depiction, representation of information using Visualization (graphics), visualization techniques. Diagrams have been used since prehistoric times on Cave painting, walls of caves, but became more prevalent during the Age o ...
, that shows a route through an accessible physical space. Routing diagrams are used in
plant layout study, and manufacturing plant design.
Overview
A routing diagrams shows a route through a physical space. They are often considered a type of flow diagram, but they differ from flowcharts, that a routing is pictured in a physical layout. There is a similarity with design of
Electrical equipment
Electrical devices or electric devices are devices that functionally rely on electric energy ( AC or DC) to operate their core parts (electric motors, transformers, lighting, rechargeable batteries, control electronics). They can be contraste ...
, where routing diagrams also in show "the physical layout of the facility and equipment and how the circuit how the circuit to the various equipment is run."
A picture with a routing in geographical space is often called a route map. While the
road map
A road map, route map, or street map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than physical geography, natural geographical information. It is a type of navigational map that commonly includes border, political boundar ...
and
transit map (such as the railway map, metro map, bus map, etc.) show all the roads or lines, the route map regularly shows one rad for a particular occasion. Likewise a ground plan or site map show all the space, buildings and/or rooms, the routing map shows one specific route on site.
Routing diagrams are used in
plant layout study. The routing diagram can consist of a
floor plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
Dimensio ...
with a trace attached, or a 3d
cross section of a building with a trace. The routing diagram transforms into a
flow diagram when the physical dimensions are taken out of the equation.
[Irvin Albert Herrmann (1950, ''Office Methods, Systems, and Procedures.'' p. 132]
References
Further reading
*
Willard C. Brinton,
Flow Charts" in ''Graphic presentation.'' New York city, Brinton associates, 1939; This is mainly about
flow diagrams.
*
Charles Day,
The Routing Diagram as a Basis for laying Out Industrial Plants" ''Engineering Magazine,'' September, 1910. p. 809-821; Republished in: ''Industrial Plants,'' 1911. Chapter VII.
* D. C. Eberhart.
222.41 c. Diagrammatic routing" in: ''The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America; Title 14.'' U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. p. 48
*
Karl G. Karsten,
Route-Charts" in: ''Charts and graphs; an introduction to graphic methods in the control and analysis of statistics,'' 1923. p. 21-38
External links
* {{commonscat-inline, Routing diagrams
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