2022 NAICS national industry in sector 31-33 Manufacturing
334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
NAICS 334513 is the US industry code for instruments and related products manufacturing for measuring, displaying, and controlling industrial process variables. This U.S.
- Code
- 334513 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Part of
- Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
- SBA small business limit
- Up to 750 employees
- Closest UK SIC
- 26511, 26512, 26513, 26514 (details)
Changes coming. The NAICS 2027 revision applies to data from 1 January 2027, and SBA proposed new size standards on 20 August 2026. The values on this page are the ones in force today; we update this page when the official files change.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing instruments and related devices for measuring, displaying, indicating, recording, transmitting, and controlling industrial process variables. These instruments measure, display, or control (monitor, analyze, and so forth) industrial process variables, such as temperature, humidity, pressure, vacuum, combustion, flow, level, viscosity, density, acidity, concentration, and rotation.
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Manufacturing instruments for measuring or testing electricity and electrical signals are classified in U.S. Industry 334515, Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals.
- Manufacturing medical thermometers are classified in U.S. Industry 339112, Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing glass hydrometers and thermometers for other non-medical uses are classified in U.S. Industry 334519, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing instruments and instrumentation systems for laboratory analysis of samples are classified in U.S. Industry 334516, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing optical alignment and display instruments, optical comparators, and optical test and inspection equipment are classified in Industry 333310, Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing.
Activities listed under 334513
The Census index assigns these 72 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Absorption analyzers, industrial process type (e.g., infrared), manufacturing
- Acidity (i.e., pH) instruments, industrial process type, manufacturing
- Analyzers, industrial process control type, manufacturing
- Annunciators, relay and solid-state types, industrial display, manufacturing
- Boiler controls, industrial, power, and marine-type, manufacturing
- Buoyancy instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Chromatographs, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Combustion control instruments (except commercial, household furnace-type) manufacturing
- Controllers for process variables (e.g., electric, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic operation) manufacturing
- Coulometric analyzers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Data loggers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Density and specific gravity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Differential pressure instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Digital displays of process variables manufacturing
- Display instruments, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Draft gauges, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Electric and electronic controllers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Electrodes used in industrial process measurement manufacturing
- Electrolytic conductivity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Electromagnetic flowmeters manufacturing
- Flow instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Fluidic devices, circuits, and systems for process control, manufacturing
- Gas analyzers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Gas and liquid analysis instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Gas chromatographic instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Gas flow instrumentation, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Gauges (i.e., analog, digital), industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Humidity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Hydrometers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Hygrometers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Indicators, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Industrial process control instruments manufacturing
- Infrared instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Instruments for industrial process control manufacturing
- Level and bulk measuring instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Liquid analysis instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Liquid concentration instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Liquid level instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Magnetic flow meters, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Manometers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Measuring instruments, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Mechanical measuring instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Meters, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Moisture meters, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Nanofluidic measurement and control devices manufacturing
- Panelboard indicators, recorders, and controllers, receiver industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Pneumatic controllers, industrial process type, manufacturing
- Potentiometric instruments (except X-Y recorders), industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Pressure gauges (e.g., dial, digital), industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Pressure instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Primary elements for process flow measurement (i.e., orifice plates) manufacturing
- Primary process temperature sensors manufacturing
- Process control instruments, industrial, manufacturing
- Programmers, process-type, manufacturing
- Pyrometers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Recorders, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Refractometers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Resistance thermometers and bulbs, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Telemetering instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Temperature instruments, industrial process-type (except glass and bimetal thermometers), manufacturing
- Thermal conductivity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Thermistors, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Thermocouples, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Thermometers, filled system industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Time cycle and program controllers, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Transmitters, industrial process control-type, manufacturing
- Turbidity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Turbine flow meters, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Variable control instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Viscosimeters, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Viscosity instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing
- Water quality monitoring and control systems manufacturing
SBA size standard for 334513
To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 334513, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 750 employees. Check your business.
Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.
Closest UK SIC 2007 codes
There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 2651), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
- 26511Manufacture of electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process controlUK SIC
- 26512Manufacture of electronic industrial process control equipmentUK SIC
- 26513Manufacture of non-electronic measuring, testing etc. equipment, not for industrial process controlUK SIC
- 26514Manufacture of non-electronic industrial process control equipmentUK SIC
Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.
Similar codes to compare
- 334510Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing
- 334511Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- 334512Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use
- 334514Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing
- 334515Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- 334516Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
- 334517Irradiation Apparatus Manufacturing
- 334519Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
Data last changed November 14, 2026. How this page is built.