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 | Environmental and industrial permitting authorities (IED/IPPC permits for heat treatment and surface treatment), business registers, EU/US… | Per facility permit; per company per duty case | public |
| employment & workforce | Statistical offices (SBS, labour force surveys), works councils and unions (IG Metall), company sustainability reports | Plant headcount annually; sector employment by NACE class regionally | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Distributor e-commerce sites, industrial B2B marketplaces, engineering forums, Glassdoor for employer sentiment | Per review/post | public |
| financial filings | Listed manufacturers (SKF, Schaeffler, Timken, NSK, NTN, JTEKT, RBC Bearings, Regal Rexnord); national business registers for private firms | Quarterly and annual, segment-level revenue and margin | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, national labour inspectorates), insurers, product-liability and field-failure/recall records held by… | Per incident at plant level; per field-failure warranty claim | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (E-PRTR, US EPA TRI), permit-holding plants (metalworking fluids, quench oils, chromium/nickel in alloy steels)… | Per facility per year by pollutant and waste stream | public |
| production output | Bearing and gearbox manufacturers (SKF, Schaeffler, Timken, NSK, Flender, Bonfiglioli); national statistical offices via PRODCOM/industrial… | Per-plant per-line daily/shift internally; monthly or annual aggregates by… | public |
| pricing | Manufacturer price lists and distributor catalogues; market data vendors for steel bar and alloy input costs (Argus, Fastmarkets… | Per SKU list price; monthly index for inputs and PPI | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Plant location registers, industrial site databases, satellite/geospatial vendors monitoring facility activity | Per facility coordinates; periodic imagery-derived activity | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data vendors (HS 8482 bearings, 8483 gears/shafts); freight forwarders; bill-of-lading aggregators (Panjiva… | Per shipment / per bill of lading; monthly country-pair trade flows by HS code | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Manufacturers' ERP/CRM systems; industrial distributors (Motion Industries, Applied Industrial Technologies, Rubix, Kramp); MRO e-commerce… | Per order line / per customer per SKU | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Distributors and OEM buyers; manufacturers' S&OP systems; forging/casting and bearing-steel suppliers | Per SKU per warehouse, weekly/monthly stock and lead-time | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant operators (heat-treatment furnaces, grinding lines); EU ETS installation reporting where furnaces are covered; energy-audit/ISO 50001… | Per site monthly/annual MWh and gas m3; sub-metered per furnace internally | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Bearing/gearbox OEM service divisions, wind turbine operators and their gearbox service contractors, rail and mining fleet CMMS operators | Per installed asset per inspection/failure event; teardown and root-cause… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Condition-monitoring platforms operated by bearing makers themselves (SKF Enlight/Insight, Schaeffler OPTIME, Timken Insight); machine-tool… | Per bearing/asset vibration & temperature at second-to-hourly intervals; per… | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Manufacturers' marketing teams and trade-fair organisers (Hannover Messe, bearing expos); trade publishers | Per campaign / per lead / per event | exclusive |
| quality & compliance testing | Manufacturers' metrology/QA labs; ISO/ABMA/AGMA/DIN conformity records; certification bodies (TÜV, DNV for wind gearboxes); notified bodies… | Per batch / per serial number dimensional, hardness, noise and endurance test… | 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.