What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | National business registers, environmental permitting authorities (E-PRTR / national IED permits for larger surface-treatment or degreasing… | Per legal entity / per site / per certificate | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (Eurostat SBS, structural business statistics), sectoral employer associations (VDMA, Gesamtmetall), social… | Annual per NACE class per region; per-posting for vacancy data | public |
| reviews & sentiment | B2B marketplaces and supplier directories (Thomasnet, Xometry supplier ratings, Europages), OEM supplier scorecards | Per supplier, per review or per scorecard period | public |
| financial filings | National company registers (Companies House, Handelsregister/Bundesanzeiger, INPI), credit bureaus (Creditreform, D&B), listed contract… | Annual per legal entity | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National OSH regulators (HSE RIDDOR, OSHA, national labour inspectorates), employers' liability insurers and sector accident insurance… | Per reported incident; annual aggregate per sector/site | public |
| waste & emissions | Waste contractors handling metal swarf, spent cutting fluid and oily wastes; national hazardous-waste tracking systems (e.g. German eANV… | Per waste consignment note; annual per facility | public |
| production output | National statistical offices (PRODCOM / industrial production indices for turned and machined parts), and shops' own MES with cycle counts | Monthly/annual per PRODCOM code nationally; per job/per shift internally | public |
| pricing | Digital manufacturing marketplaces (Xometry, Protolabs, Hubs) with instant-quote engines; procurement benchmarking consultancies; metal… | Per quoted part (geometry, material, quantity, lead time); daily/weekly for… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Freight forwarders and parcel carriers used for part shipment, customs authorities (HS codes for machined parts), trade-data vendors… | Per shipment / per bill of lading; monthly aggregate by HS code and country | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Contract machining job shops (ERP/MES systems such as JobBOSS, E2, ProShop), their OEM and tier-1 customers' procurement systems, and B2B… | Per quote / per purchase order / per job line item | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Job shop ERP systems, cutting-tool and tooling distributors (MSC Industrial, Hoffmann, Sandvik Coromant), metal service centres supplying… | Per SKU per site, updated daily; per work order for WIP | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | CNC machine builders and control vendors (Fanuc FOCAS, Siemens Sinumerik, Heidenhain, Mazak SmartBox), machine-monitoring platforms… | Sub-second to per-minute spindle load, feed override, axis position, alarm… | partnership |
| energy consumption | Shops' own submetering and utility suppliers; national energy balances/statistical offices for sectoral electricity use; energy audit… | Half-hourly meter data per site; annual aggregate per NACE class | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Machine-monitoring platforms (MachineMetrics, Datanomix) and shop scheduling/APS systems tracking spindle utilisation and OEE | Per machine per shift, aggregated daily | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Job shops' CMM/metrology systems (Zeiss Calypso, Hexagon PC-DMIS), quality management systems producing PPAP/FAI reports, ISO 9001/IATF… | Per part / per inspection dimension / per production lot; per certificate for… | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Machine tool OEM service organisations (DMG Mori Netservice, Mazak, Okuma), CMMS vendors, spindle rebuilders | Per machine serial number, per service event and per condition-monitoring… | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.