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Division: D - Manufacturing

US-SIC Code 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified

Industry Description

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing measuring and controlling devices, not elsewhere classified, including meteorological instruments. Important products of this industry are physical properties testing equipment, nuclear radiation detection and monitoring instrumentation, aircraft engine instruments (except flight), and liquid-in-glass and bimetal thermometers. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing surveying and drafting instruments, such as alidades, transits, sextants, theodolites, slide rules, and T- squares.

Business Examples

Common types of business activities within US SIC 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified are:

  • Accelerometers, except aerospace type
  • Actinometers, meteorological
  • Alidades, surveying
  • Anamometers
  • Barographs
  • Barometers, mercury and aneroid types
  • Cable testing machines
  • Ceilometers
  • Chronometers, electronic
  • Clinical thermometers, including digital
  • Compasses, magnetic: portable type
  • Count rate meters, nuclear radiation
  • Drafting instruments and machines
  • Dynamometer instruments
  • Electrogamma ray loggers
  • Evaporation meters
  • Fare registers: e.g., for streetcars and buses
  • Fatigue testing machines, industrial: mechanical
  • Fuel densitometers, aircraft engine
  • Fuel mixture indicators, aircraft engine
  • Fuel system instruments, aircraft
  • Fuel totalizers, aircraft engine
  • Gauges except electric, motor vehicle: oil pressure and water
  • Gauging instruments, thickness: ultrasonic
  • Geiger counters
  • Hardness testing equipment
  • Humidity instruments, except industrial process and air-conditioning
  • Hydrometers, except industrial process type
  • Hygrometers, except industrial process type
  • Hygrothermographs
  • Instrumentation for reactor controls, auxiliary
  • Ion chambers
  • Kinematic test and measuring equipment
  • Level gauges, radiation type
  • Levels and tapes, surveying
  • Magnetometers
  • Map plotting instruments
  • Meteorogic tracking systems
  • Meteorological instruments
  • Nephoscopes
  • Nuclear instrument modules
  • Nuclear radiation detection and monitoring instruments
  • Personnel dosimetry devices
  • Photogrammetrical instruments
  • Photopitometers
  • Physical properties testing and inspection equipment
  • Pitometers
  • Pressure and vacuum indicators, aircraft engine
  • Pulse analyzers, nuclear monitoring
  • Pyrheliometers
  • Radiation measuring and detecting (radiac) equipment
  • Rain gauges
  • Restitution apparatus, photogrammetrical
  • Sample changers, nuclear radiation
  • Scalers, nuclear radiation
  • Scintillation detectors
  • Seismographs
  • Seismometers
  • Seismoscopes
  • Sextants, surveying
  • Solarimeters
  • Spectrometers, liquid scintillation and nuclear
  • Stereotopographs
  • Stress, strain, and flaw detecting and measuring equipment
  • Surveying instruments
  • Synchronizers, aircraft engine
  • Testers for checking hydraulic controls on aircraft
  • Testing equipment: abrasion, shearing strength, tensile strength, and
  • Theodolites, surveying
  • Thermocouples, except industrial process, aircraft type, and glass
  • Thermohydrometers
  • Thermometers, liquid-in-glass and bimetal types
  • Thrust power indicators, aircraft engine
  • Toll booths, automatic
  • Transducers, pressure
  • Transits, surveying
  • Turnstiles, equipped with counting mechanisms
  • Ultrasonic testing equipment
  • Vibration meters, analyzers, and calibrators
  • Viscosimeters, except industrial process type
  • Weather tracking equipment
  • Whole body counters, nuclear
  • Wind direction indicators

IBISWorld Industry Research Report

Navigational Instrument Manufacturing in the US (33451a)

Revenue 2025

$135.4bn

Growth 2025

1.28%

Key Trends

  • To remain competitive, domestic manufacturers have invested in research and development

  • A rebound in commercial air travel in 2022 is expected to fuel a resurgence in demand from this industry

  • Increased R&D spending will likely stimulate demand from downstream consumers

Products and Services

US-SIC Hierarchy 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified

US-SIC Code 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified sits in the 2-digit Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.

Division: D

Division Title: Manufacturing

2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits

Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified

For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 3829 - Measuring and Controlling Devices, Not Elsewhere Classified. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.

6 Digit SIC Codes

  • 382901 Compasses (manufacturers)
  • 382902 Hydrometers (manufacturers)
  • 382904 Drafting room equipment-manufacturers
  • 382905 Hygrometers-manufacturers
  • 382906 Radioactivity instruments supls/svc-mfrs
  • 382907 Surveying instruments-manufacturers
  • 382908 Testing apparatus-manufacturers
  • 382912 Air quality measuring equipment
  • 382913 Dynamometers (manufacturers)
  • 382914 Measuring tapes & rules (manufacturers)
  • 382915 Stress relief equip & service-ind (mfrs)
  • 382916 Turnstiles (manufacturers)
  • 382917 Rulers & yardsticks (manufacturers)
  • 382918 Seismograph equipment & supplies (mfrs)
  • 382919 Anemometers (manufacturers)
  • 382920 Alcohol breath detectors (manufacturers)
  • 382921 Templates (manufacturers)
  • 382922 Booths-toll & parking lot & etc (mfrs)
  • 382924 Photogrammetric instruments (mfrs)
  • 382925 Thermometer wells (manufacturers)
  • 382926 Thermostatic bimetals (manufacturers)
  • 382927 Thermometers-manufacturers
  • 382929 Weather instruments-mfrs
  • 382998 Measuring/controlling devices nec (mfrs)

8 Digit SIC Codes

  • 38290000 Measuring and controlling devices, nec
  • 38290100 Aircraft and motor vehicle measurement equipment
  • 38290101 Accelerometers
  • 38290102 Fuel densitometers, aircraft engine
  • 38290103 Fuel mixture indicators, aircraft engine
  • 38290104 Fuel system instruments, aircraft
  • 38290105 Fuel totalizers, aircraft engine
  • 38290106 Gauges, motor vehicle: oil pressure, water temperature
  • 38290107 Gauging instruments, thickness ultrasonic
  • 38290108 Instrument board gauges, automotive: computerized
  • 38290109 Oil pressure gauges, motor vehicle
  • 38290110 Pressure and vacuum indicators, aircraft engine
  • 38290111 Synchronizers, aircraft engine
  • 38290112 Testers for checking hydraulic controls on aircraft
  • 38290113 Thrust power indicators, aircraft engine
  • 38290114 Water temperature gauges, motor vehicle
  • 38290200 Geophysical and meteorological testing equipment
  • 38290201 Actinometers, meteorological
  • 38290202 Barographs
  • 38290203 Barometers, mercury and aneroid types
  • 38290204 Ceilometers
  • 38290205 Evaporation meters
  • 38290206 Geophysical or meteorological electronic equipment
  • 38290207 Humidity instruments, except industrial process type
  • 38290208 Hygrometers, except industrial process type
  • 38290209 Magnetometers
  • 38290210 Meteorologic tracking systems
  • 38290211 Meteorological instruments
  • 38290212 Moisture density meters
  • 38290213 Nephoscopes
  • 38290214 Rain gauges
  • 38290215 Seismographs
  • 38290216 Seismometers
  • 38290217 Seismoscopes
  • 38290218 Solarimeters
  • 38290219 Weather tracking equipment
  • 38290220 Wind direction indicators
  • 38290300 Surveying and drafting equipment
  • 38290301 Alidades, surveying
  • 38290302 Drafting instruments and machines: t-square, template, etc.
  • 38290303 Levels and tapes, surveying
  • 38290304 Map plotting instruments
  • 38290305 Photogrammetrical instruments
  • 38290306 Phototheodolites
  • 38290307 Plotting instruments, drafting and map reading
  • 38290308 Plumb bobs
  • 38290309 Restitution apparatus, photogrammetrical
  • 38290310 Sextants, surveying
  • 38290311 Stereotopographs
  • 38290312 Surveying instruments and accessories
  • 38290313 Theodolites
  • 38290314 Transits, surveyors'
  • 38290400 Physical property testing equipment
  • 38290401 Cable testing machines
  • 38290402 Coal testing apparatus
  • 38290403 Dynamometer instruments
  • 38290404 Fatigue testing machines, industrial: mechanical
  • 38290405 Hardness testing equipment
  • 38290406 Stress, strain, and flaw detecting/measuring equipment
  • 38290407 Tensile strength testing equipment
  • 38290408 Testing equipment: abrasion, shearing strength, etc.
  • 38290409 Torsion testing equipment
  • 38290500 Nuclear radiation and testing apparatus
  • 38290501 Count rate meters, nuclear radiation
  • 38290502 Electrogamma ray loggers
  • 38290503 Geiger counters
  • 38290504 Ion chambers
  • 38290505 Level gauges, radiation type
  • 38290506 Medical diagnostic systems, nuclear
  • 38290507 Nuclear instrument modules
  • 38290508 Personnel dosimetry devices
  • 38290509 Pulse analyzers, nuclear monitoring
  • 38290510 Sample changers, nuclear radiation
  • 38290511 Scalers, nuclear radiation
  • 38290512 Spectrometers, liquid scintillation and nuclear
  • 38290513 Whole body counters, nuclear
  • 38290600 Automatic turnstiles and related apparatus
  • 38290601 Fare registers, for street cars, buses, etc.
  • 38290602 Toll booths, automatic
  • 38290603 Turnstiles, equipped with counting mechanisms
  • 38290700 Thermometers and temperature sensors
  • 38290701 Temperature sensors, except industrial process and aircraft
  • 38290702 Thermocouples
  • 38290703 Thermometers, including digital: clinical
  • 38290704 Thermometers, liquid-in-glass and bimetal type
  • 38299900 Measuring and controlling devices, nec
  • 38299901 Anamometers
  • 38299902 Breathalyzers
  • 38299903 Chronometers, electronic
  • 38299904 Compasses, magnetic: portable type
  • 38299905 Fire detector systems, non-electric
  • 38299906 Gas detectors
  • 38299907 Hydrometers, except industrial process type
  • 38299908 Instrumentation for reactor controls, auxiliary
  • 38299909 Kinematic test and measuring equipment
  • 38299910 Liquid scintillation spectrometers
  • 38299911 Photopitometers
  • 38299912 Pitometers
  • 38299913 Pressure transducers
  • 38299914 Pyrheliometers
  • 38299915 Salinity indicators, except industrial process type
  • 38299916 Scintillation detectors
  • 38299917 Shadowgraphs
  • 38299918 Slide rules
  • 38299919 Thermohydrometers
  • 38299920 Thermomagnetic oxygen analyzer
  • 38299921 Turntable indicator testers
  • 38299922 Ultrasonic testing equipment
  • 38299923 Vibration meters, analyzers, and calibrators
  • 38299924 Viscosimeters, except industrial process type
  • 38299925 Polygraph devices
  • 38299926 Liquid leak detection equipment

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A 01-09 Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
B 10-14 Mining
C 15-17 Construction
D 20-39 Manufacturing
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G 52-59 Retail Trade
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I 70-89 Services
J 90-99 Public Administration

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