Manufacturing engineering is the industry responsible for taking concepts & ideas and using this to create a product or service. It's an area of engineering that focuses on understanding and analysing industrial and manufacturing systems and problems to create solutions. Experts in this area not only design the product but select processes and technology to assist with manufacturing. It an important function throughout supply chain management, logistics and even quality management and manufacturing engineers work to bridge gaps in organisational systems and processes.

This industry includes a variety of areas such as additive manufacturing, industrial automation systems, machine tool systems and heat treatments. Standards not only ensure the systems and processes are meeting their requirements, but also allowing organisation to implement new techniques to their manufacturing efforts.