SIC 3824 Totalizing Fluid Meters and Counting Devices

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SIC 3824

This category includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing meters for registering or tallying quantities of fluids, motor vehicle measuring instruments, and instruments for counting the frequency of items or events. This category includes establishments that manufacture domestic, commercial, and industrial gas and water meters; meters for measuring speed, distance traveled, and other variables for the motor vehicle industry; and counters and timers for quantifying production rates in industrial processes. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing electricity integrating meters and electronic frequency counters are classified in SIC 3825: Instruments for Measuring and Testing of Electricity and Electrical Signals. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing flow meters for industrial process control and other industrial process instruments are classified in SIC 3823: Industrial Instruments for Measurement, Display, and Control of Process Variables; and Related Products.

NAICS CODE(S)

334514

Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Devices Manufacturing

Approximately 220 U.S. establishments manufactured totalizing fluid meters and counting devices in the mid-2000s. These establishments employed more than 15,000 people and generated more than $4.6 billion in shipments in 2003. Totalizing fluid meters measure fluids in quantity terms (such as gallons or cubic feet) and indicate total fluid volume rather than the rates of flow indicated by the flow meters used in industrial process control. The most common type of totalizing fluid meter is the positive-displacement meter, which operates by allowing the fluid to enter a chamber where the force of fluid motion causes a diaphragm, disk, vane, or other element to move or rotate. Each cycle of the rotating or moving element generates a signal that is sent to the registering component of the meter, which tallies or indicates the total fluid quantity.

Small positive-displacement meters used for registering consumption of water in households or businesses have traditionally been the largest product type in the integrating and totalizing fluid meter segment, followed by meters for registering residential gas consumption. Other significant product groups in this segment include registering or totalizing gas meters for commercial or industrial use, impeller meters and consumption-registering rotary and turbine gas meters, gauges for...