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, patent offices (EPO/USPTO) for AM machine patents, export-control authorities (dual-use listings for metal AM… | per entity, per patent, per export licence application | public |
| reviews & sentiment | User communities and review platforms (Aniwaa, All3DP, Reddit/forums), analyst customer-satisfaction surveys | per review/post per machine model | public |
| financial filings | Listed OEMs' investor relations and SEC/EU filings; company registers (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger); Orbis/Bureau van Dijk | quarterly/annual per legal entity, with segment revenue | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, EU-OSHA) for metal powder handling/explosion incidents; machinery-directive market-surveillance… | per incident/inspection; per recall notice | public |
| waste & emissions | OEM plants' environmental reporting (E-PRTR where thresholds met), corporate sustainability/CSRD reports of listed OEMs | annual per site/per group | public |
| production output | OEM manufacturing operations; national statistical offices (PRODCOM industrial production series covering AM machinery) | units and value per product line per month/quarter; PRODCOM annual per country | public |
| transactional/sales | AM machine OEMs (EOS, Stratasys, 3D Systems, Nikon SLM, Trumpf, Desktop Metal), their distributors/resellers; market research firms… | per machine order/installation at OEM level; quarterly unit-shipment and… | purchasable |
| pricing | OEMs and resellers (list/quote prices), consumable (powder/filament/resin) suppliers, used-equipment marketplaces (e.g. Machinio, ExaPro)… | per machine configuration/quote; per-kg consumable price list; per used-machine… | purchasable |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (structural business statistics at NACE 28.9 level), OEM HR systems, LinkedIn/job-posting scrapers (Lightcast… | headcount per firm per year; per job posting | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data aggregators (Panjiva, ImportGenius, Eurostat Comext) tracking HS 8485 additive manufacturing machines… | per shipment/bill of lading; monthly aggregates by HS code and country pair | purchasable |
| customer demographics | OEM CRM systems and market analysts (AMPOWER, Wohlers) segmenting installed base by industry vertical and region | installed base counts per vertical per region per year | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | OEM ERP/MRP systems, contract manufacturers of lasers, optics, galvo scanners, recoaters, motion control; tier-1 component suppliers (IPG… | per part number per plant, weekly/monthly; per purchase order | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | OEM fleet-monitoring/connected-machine platforms (EOS Smart Monitoring, Materialise, Authentise, AM software vendors), machine owners' MES | per build job, per layer; melt-pool and chamber sensor streams at kHz–Hz rates | partnership |
| energy consumption | OEM engineering test data on machine power draw; machine owners' facility metering; standards bodies working on AM energy benchmarking | per build job kWh; per machine specification | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | OEM QA labs, ASTM F42 / ISO TC261 standards participants, notified bodies and certification labs (TÜV, DEKRA), aerospace/medical customers… | per machine acceptance test, per qualification build, per certificate | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | OEM service organisations and their field-service/CRM systems; large service bureaus operating machine fleets | per service ticket, per machine serial number, per uptime interval | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | OEM marketing departments, trade-show organisers (Formnext, RAPID+TCT) lead data, industry media (3D Printing Industry, TCT) analytics | per campaign, per event, per lead | 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.