Functional analysis with Unistep

With Unistep you can highly improve the presentation of your functional analysis

In functional analysis of a process, at the beginning you define some main general steps that happen sequentially in time. Then each of these steps is detailed (decomposed) in some lower-level steps (that happen in time too). This decomposition may go down one or more levels. Looking at more detailed (internal) levels is also called « drill down » functional analysis.

Here you find an example of  this kind of diagrams. You can show dynamically how control goes from the main processes to the sub processes (drill down), as functional decomposition. 

Functional analysis example - a main function, has two sub-functions. Each sub-function has also its components
General view		Drill down to level 1		Drill down to level 2

Here is a practical example how Unistep may help functional analysis : display selected sub functions, animate the whole diagram in a drill down mode, using various options:

• Visio in standard mode, Unistep streams in normal mode
• Visio in standard mode, Unistep streams in "isolated" mode (shapes belonging to non selected streams are dimmed
  • Isolated 25%
  • Isolated 50%
  • Isolated 75%
  • Isolated 100% (other shapes are invisible)
• Visio in "presentation mode" (high quality graphics, without toolbars), Unistep streams in normal mode. Unistep commands are from keyboard only.
• Visio in presentation mode, Unistep streams in "isolation" mode
  •  Isolated 25%
  •  Isolated 50%
  •  Isolated 75%
  •  Isolated 100% (other shapes are invisible)

Visio in normal mode, display several streams
Selection of two streams		Selection of three streams		Selection of four streams
Visio normal mode, Display two streams in Unistep isolated mode
Two streams selected,  display normal		Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 25 %		Two streams, isolated, dim value: 50 %
Two streams selected,  dim value: 75%		Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 100 %
Visio in presentation mode. Display several streams
Two streams selected		Three streams selected		Four streams selected
Visio in presentation mode, Display two streams in Unistep isolated mode
Presentation mode. Two streams selected		Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 25 %		Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 50 %
Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 75 %		Two streams in isolated mode. Dim value: 100 %