Industrial Engineering

Inventions whose working principle is the organization and safe running of production, storage and handling work: material handling and warehouse equipment, workplace safety equipment, and the quality and planning tools used to improve a process. Belongs here: the pallet and the shipping container, the kanban system and the control chart, the assembly line, the programmable logic controller and the safety harness. Does not belong here: single machine tools and engines, which sit with mechanical engineering, and chemical or metal-making processes, which sit with their own fields.