NAICS 33361Industry · 5-digitnational market

Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment manufacturing

SoftwareManufacturing Execution & Plant Automation 333

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing turbines and turbine generator sets; internal combustion engines (except automotive gasoline and aircraft); and speed changers, industrial high-speed drives and gears. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wind- and solar-powered turbine generators and windmills for generating electric power are included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 122
Under 10 employeesA: 53%
Establishments · USA: 908
Employment · USA: 95,564
Payroll · USA: $7.5B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–44739%

5–91815%

10–192117%

20–491815%

50–99119%

100–19932%

200–49922%

500+22%

Of 122 Canadian establishments with employees, 53% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario4638%

Quebec3428%

Alberta1714%

British Columbia1714%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Manufacturing, US · opened 2020

86.2%

1 year

70.8%

3 years

58.4%

5 years

45.3%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 333, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

national competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 333 Machinery manufacturing

Niche machinery builders hold defensible positions through application knowledge. Aftermarket parts and service are where the margin sits.

Who sets the price: Specification and engineering rather than a market price.
The software it runs on: Engineer-to-order ERP, product lifecycle management, service and parts.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 3336 Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment manufacturing covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 3336

Turbine, Engine and Industrial Gearbox BuilderStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

Turbines, non-automotive engines, gearboxes and industrial drives — 122 Canadian establishments, of which 65 have fewer than ten people, against a US industry averaging 105 employees per establishment [A]. The attraction is current: power demand has the gas-turbine makers sold out years ahead. GE Vernova's Power segment took US$19.8B of revenue at a 14.7% EBITDA margin in 2025, and its 2025 cash from operations took in US$8.0B of contract liabilities and deferred income, driven first by down payments on Power orders and turbine slot reservations [A]. But the same filing shows what building rotating power equipment costs when things go less well. GE Vernova's Wind segment lost US$598M of EBITDA on US$9.1B of revenue in 2025, after losing US$588M in 2024 and US$1,033M in 2023 [A] — a leading turbine maker, at full scale, three years running. The mechanism is that the manufacturer does not just sell a machine; it underwrites the machine's output for years under fixed-price contracts and fleet-wide warranties, so a design fault or a delayed project is charged to its balance sheet across every unit shipped. Power survives that because US$13.1B of its US$19.8B revenue is services on turbines installed over decades — the installed-base annuity described in the special-purpose machinery record at 3332. The point specific to this group is the other side of it: the capital an entrant needs is not the plant, it is the balance sheet a utility or pipeline operator will accept as guarantor of a twenty-year asset. The small Canadian establishments are, on this reading, gear-cutting and rebuild shops serving local mills and mines — closer to the machine shop at 3327 than to a way into this industry. Plant software is screened separately.

NAICS 33366 vendors named13 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Sold across the wider branch

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 333 Machinery manufacturing

Manufacturing Execution & Plant AutomationExecution decides

binding constraint: distribution

Incumbent Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell (Plex), SAP Digital Manufacturing

MES is sold and implemented through system integrators, not directly — the integrator relationship is the distribution channel and it takes years to build. The software also has to speak to whatever PLC and SCADA estate is already installed, which favours the vendors who supplied it. Anchored at the 333 subsector because MES spans all of discrete manufacturing rather than any one industry group. Sourced update: Rockwell's Software & Control segment grew 9% to $2,383M while lifting operating margin from 24.2% to 29.7%. An entrant is attacking a business that is compounding margin, which is the least promising moment to attack one.

NAICS 3333 vendors named3 sourced figuresOpen →

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

Discrete manufacturing ERP SaaS 31-33

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors One industry 91.3%

Supervisors, assembly and fabrication One industry 88.3%

Machine operators and related workers in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing One industry 86.1%

Managers in manufacturing and utilities One industry 84.4%

Machine operators and related workers in chemical, plastic and rubber processing One industry 82.7%

Mechanical, electrical and electronics assemblers and inspectors One industry 82.3%

Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing One industry 79.1%

Machine operators and related workers in mineral and metal products processing and manufacturing One industry 77.7%

Furniture, wood, plastic and other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors One industry 73.9%

Machine operators and related workers in textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing One industry 70.8%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 20%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 16.3%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 15.2%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 11.6%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 10.7%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 9.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 8.3%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.7%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.8%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 33361. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
333611	Turbine and turbine generator set unit manufacturing	23	screened at 3336
333619	Other engine and power transmission equipment manufacturing	99	screened at 3336