Manufacturing Total Factor Productivity Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

One named panel answers this query outright. Within Datadory's 20-dataset pool for Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components — 7 primary records plus 13 related collections — the NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database is the only source publishing TFP levels and growth rates by industry: an annual 1958-2018 panel spanning 364 six-digit NAICS industries and 22,204 industry-year rows, downloadable as about 5 MB files in CSV, Stata, Excel or SAS format.

Two companions complete the workflow. The BEA GDP-by-industry (iTable) serves value added, gross output, intermediate inputs and KLEMS productivity components for all US industries including machinery through an official API, with detailed annual estimates spanning 1997 and beyond. For the United Kingdom, the ONS Manufacturing and Production Industry hub publishes the monthly Index of Production — 1,134 series columns across 1,340 date rows in the current edition — though it measures output volumes, not TFP.

Because US industry definitions changed twice across six decades, the database ships in three concorded versions: 459 four-digit 1987 SIC industries, 473 six-digit 1997 NAICS industries and 364 six-digit 2012 NAICS industries, joined by a crosswalk file (conc_naics97_naics12.dta). Machinery analysts work in the n2012 version, where every six-digit machinery manufacturing sector appears — NAICS 3331-3339, covering machine shops, metalworking machinery, engines, material handling equipment and agricultural equipment. The Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis supply the underlying data, compiled by Randy Becker, Wayne Gray and Jordan Marvakov.

Current-vintage NAICS detail comes from the US Census Annual Survey of Manufactures (NAICS 333120 Construction Machinery Manufacturing): employment, payroll, value added, inventories and capital expenditures for individual machinery lines, reachable through a keyed Census Data API under a commercial delivery terms 1.0 dedication. The area2017 cube alone defines about 196 variables, and the 2022 benchmark cube adds 48 variables across roughly 470 NAICS manufacturing industries. Mind the program handoff: the 2022 benchmark arrived in April 2025 and the ASM has folded into the Annual Integrated Economic Survey, whose first main release (2023 reference year) published on 26 February 2026.

For cycle timing rather than levels, Census M3 – Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories & Orders reports new orders and unfilled orders monthly from January 1992, with the advance report landing about 18 working days after month end.

Germany and Japan arrive as association order books rather than productivity statistics. VDMA Mechanical Engineering Industry Statistics issues monthly order-intake, production and business-climate headlines free — the world machinery trade table runs about 0.1 MB against an 8.6 MB statistical handbook — while the Statistikdatenbank and branch-level series covering nearly 100 specialist branches stay members-only. The JMTBA Machine Tool Statistics (Japan) publishes a one-page flash, a four-page confirmed summary and cumulative statistics as free PDFs back to January 2009, split domestic versus foreign, with the latest flash dated July 2026.

For a price-based competitiveness signal, Trade Map (International Trade Centre — ITC) computes unit values — trade value divided by quantity — across roughly 220 reporting territories and about 5,300 HS6 products, with annual series generally beginning in 2001 through a free JSON API.

The industrial machinery supplies components data guide is the pillar: all 20 pooled records scored and grouped by workflow, including the NASA prognostics corpus that dominates the rest of this industry.