That, at least, is what you reference to the industrial environment makes me think of.

“ Nous avons adopté le "three bins system" ” explique-t-il. Ce système consiste à faire usage de trois bacs. Le contenu du premier est consommé sur le poste de fabrication, tandis qu’un second bac est en cours de remplissage dans le magasin, et qu’un bac dit "in process" circule entre ces deux positions extrêmes. “ On ne commence l’opération de remplissage que lorsqu’un bac vide se présente au magasin ”. Autant dire que le bac, emporté sur son chariot mobile, joue le rôle de la carte kanban traditionnelle.
www.txcom.fr/fichiers/443/toshiba.pdf

Kanban
The illustration below shows two rows of part bins which are set up for resupply by the two-bin kanban system.1 Initial assembly starts with all bins full of parts. When the part bin nearest the worker is depleted, the full bin behind moves forward, as shown by the empty space in the illustration. The empty part bin then is returned to its "source," which could be the machine that made the part, a sub-assembly workstation that assembled the part, or a supplier. The source fills the bin and returns it to this assembly workstation behind its counterpart which is now dispensing parts
http://www.build-to-order-consulting.com/kanban.htm

If you don't like this answer you can bin-bag it.