Manufacturing

     Definition: The Manufacturing sector comprises establishments engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products. The assembling of component parts of manufactured products is considered manufacturing, except in cases where the activity is appropriately classified in Sector, Construction.

Included in this Manufacturing section:

• Food Manufacturing
• Wood Product and Chemical Manufacturing
• Primary Metal Manufacturing
• Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing - Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
• Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
• Miscellaneous Manufacturing

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

Industries in the Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing Sub-Sector group establishments that manufacture computers, computer peripherals, communications equipment, and similar electronic products, and establishments that manufacture components for such products. The Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing industries have been combined in the hierarchy because of the economic significance they have attained. Their rapid growth suggests that they will become even more important to the economies of all three North American countries in the future, and in addition their manufacturing processes are fundamentally different from the manufacturing processes of other machinery and equipment. The design and use of integrated circuits and the application of highly specialized miniaturization technologies are common elements in the production technologies of the computer and electronic Sub-Sector. Convergence of technology motivates this Sub-Sector. Digitalization of sound recording, for example, causes both the medium (the compact disc) and the equipment to resemble the technologies for recording, storing, transmitting, and manipulating data. Communications technology and equipment have been converging with computer technology. When technologically-related components are in the same sector, it makes it easier to adjust the classification for future changes, without needing to redefine its basic structure. The creation of the Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing Sub-Sector will assist in delineating new and emerging industries because the activities that will serve as the probable sources of new industries, such as computer manufacturing and communications equipment manufacturing, or computers and audio equipment, are brought together. As new activities emerge, they are less likely therefore, to cross the Sub-Sector boundaries of the classification.

• Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
  • Communications Equipment Manufacturing
  • Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
  • Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
  • Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
  • Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media
• Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
  • Household Appliance Manufacturing
  • Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
  • Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing 

• ABB Group - Manufacturer of automation and process control systems, electronic components, instrumentation and measurement devices, and power substation and oil and gas equipment. Product and service descriptions, white papers, and company background.
• Agilent Technologies - Designs, manufactures and markets test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions and semi-conductor and optical components. Includes a comprehensive investor relations page. (NYSE: A)
• All Shore Industries - Designer and manufacturer of electronic parts and assemblies. Specializes in LCD panels, AC adapters and chargers, and contract manufacturing. Staten Island, NY, USA.
• Aplab Limited - Manufacturers of electronic instruments, power supplies, oscilloscopes, ups, bank automation, atms, industrial products, test and measuring instruments, payphone and pos-t.
• Cooper Industries - Manufacturer of electrical products that distribute and control electricity, provide circuit protection, illuminate facilities, support electronic and telecommunications components and offer fire and security detection.
• Delta Products Corp. - Manufactures switching power supplies, supplier of video displays and electronic components for computer, telecommunication and networking industries.
• Directed Energy Inc. - Manufactures range of high speed, pulsed power instruments and components. Applications include mass spectroscopy, pulsed component characterization, and semiconductor, dielectric, insulation, and laser diode testing.
• Envoys Electronics Pvt Ltd. - India based manufacturers of road traffic signals, plant machinery for TV and picture tubes, fire detection systems, and other industrial systems. Product descriptions and list of clients.
• FKI Electrical Engineering - Global supplier of capital goods, including transformers, switchgear, motors, generators and drives.
• HuaBang Electronics Mfty - Manufacture of power transformers, adapters, audio transformers, ballasts, micro-motors, power supply, and motors. From China.
• Jackson Electrics Group. - New Zealand. Electrics company servicing a broad range of requirements for industrial and commercial markets. Site explains about four Divisions: Industrial, Commercial, Data Link (PLC) and Facilities Management.
• 3M Electronics Division - Manufactures materials and components for PCB manufacturing and assembly, semiconductor manufacturing and electronics products. Online product search, selection and specifications.
• Robertshaw Industrial Products - A global electronics and engineering company that designs solutions to meet total automation management and control requirements.