NAICS 3399Industry group · 4-digitnational market1 market record

Other miscellaneous manufacturing

This industry group comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry group, primarily engaged in manufacturing activities. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 3,765
Under 10 employeesA: 76%
Establishments · USA: 14,995
Employment · USA: 251,868
Payroll · USA: $14.9B

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

1–41,97953%

5–987023%

10–1945012%

20–493128%

50–991203%

100–199231%

200–49990%

500+20%

Of 3,765 Canadian establishments with employees, 76% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario1,47439%

Quebec1,01527%

British Columbia59316%

Alberta3539%

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 339, 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 339 Miscellaneous manufacturing

A residual holding unlike businesses — medical devices, dental labs, signs, jewellery, sporting goods. Each needs reading on its own.

Who sets the price: Varies by niche — dental labs take the dentist's price, medical devices a regulated one.
The software it runs on: Niche-specific: dental lab management, quality systems for devices.

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.

Operating businessScreened

Dental Laboratory & Sign ManufacturingOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

3399 is a residual holding several unrelated niches, so this screen ran on its two most reachable — dental laboratories and sign manufacture — rather than on the code as a whole. Dental labs cut on who the buyer became. Dental Service Organisations are consolidating practices and then buying or contracting labs at negotiated volume rates, and the top 50 firms already take over 46% of industry revenue [C]; chairside milling moves the simplest, most profitable cases out of the lab entirely. Sign manufacture cuts on the same mechanism a rung down: the profitable work is national-account rollouts, which go to fabricators with installation networks. A second finding, and the more useful one: the published sizing for dental labs is irreconcilable — $9.2B, $10.39B and $6.3B all appear for overlapping definitions, and lab counts of 4,566 and 27,000+ are both in circulation. No figure here should be used for a decision.

NAICS 33995 vendors named10 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.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Niche-specific: dental lab management, quality systems for devices.

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.

Companies in this industry · 1

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
DaktronicsNASDAQ:DAKT	Other miscellaneous manufacturing3399	$839M	1/1

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.

Tagged to this industry

Specialized occupations in services

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. But note the shape of this industry: 76% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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Inside this industry

6 rows sit directly beneath 3399, and 12 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
33991	Jewellery and silverware manufacturing	348	screened at 3399
33992	Sporting and athletic goods manufacturing	262	screened at 3399
33993	Doll, toy and game manufacturing	95	screened at 3399
33994	Office supplies (except paper) manufacturing	67	screened at 3399
33995	Sign manufacturing	1,040	screened at 3399
33999	All other miscellaneous manufacturing	1,953	screened at 3399

Alongside it, under 339 Miscellaneous manufacturing

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
3391	Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing	1,410	Dental Laboratory Operation