[RobertoG]

Maybe control version? From software to a lot of other information industries.

Also, not an industry, but I think that some mathematicians use category theory to translate insights from one domain to other.

(Trying the recipe itself here to find a meta-recipe) I think an insight itself from category theory to a more general recipe could be: don't try to move "laterally" to other industry, but go first "up" from a specific solution to a more general interpretation, and see what more you can solve "down" from there.

[fakedang]

I don't think this is valid. Which other field is there where you can revert changes to a previous version? Certainly not hardware manufacturing.

[jskdvsksnb]

Versioning schematics and manuals is actually a great place for version control in manufacturing.

One of my first projects out of school was a web app where our engineers could document the assembly steps for a given sub-assenbly, then string those sub-assemblies together into a manual for a specific product. The sub-assembly instructions would be revision controlled, and products would be revision controlled. The model was conceptually similar to git submodules.

[kroltan]

I don't recall exactly, but there was some legal authority (I think it was a U.S. state?) That uses Git for versioning laws, using pull requests as a way of usefully visualizing changes.

[antoinealb]

Most domains where you produce knowledge as your main output would work. Version control is integrated in Office for example.