Publish Date: August 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Electrical Control Manufacturing Market Report covers the $13.5 billion industry which produces operational management systems for motors, processes, and powered equipment across industrial, commercial, and specialized applications. Competitive structure features global automation corporations alongside specialized manufacturers addressing particular control technologies or application sectors. Market requirements increasingly emphasize energy optimization, communication capabilities supporting system integration, specialized functionality addressing application-specific requirements, and increasingly remote monitoring supporting predictive maintenance. Manufacturers face challenges balancing electrical engineering, software integration, quality assurance for critical applications, and significant tariff considerations affecting component sourcing and market access. Successful companies establish advantages through advanced control algorithms optimizing operational performance, user-friendly interfaces enhancing usability, specialized designs addressing application requirements, and digital capabilities supporting connectivity in a sector where performance reliability and integration capabilities influence competitive positioning.
Electrical Control Manufacturing Industry Definition
Electrical Control Manufacturing produces devices that regulate and manage electrical systems and equipment in industrial, commercial, and utility applications. Companies design and build equipment including motor controllers, relays, contactors, and integrated control systems that provide automated operation and protection functions. Manufacturing processes include precision contact fabrication, electronic circuit assembly, mechanism development, enclosure production, and testing under simulated operating conditions. These businesses create essential operational infrastructure for electrical systems. The industry continuously improves reliability, protection features, integration capabilities, and increasingly, digital functionality while developing enhanced sensing technologies, improved materials, and connectivity options that optimize control precision and operational intelligence in automated systems requiring coordinated electrical control.
NAICS Code: 335314
Total # of Companies: 795
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 879
Industry Employees: 36,601
Market Size: $13.5 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the electrical control manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $950 million
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Electrical Control Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Electrical Control Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. This market report is utilized by professionals to gain a in-depth understanding of the sector for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
The report has over 100 industry statistical data sets with historicals (2017-2025), trend analysis, and forecasts for 2026 and the next 5 years. The report includes market size & growth, in-depth OPEX analysis on 26 categories, dozens of financial metrics, forecasts on 100+ data sets, plant inventory analysis, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, numerous industry segmentations, competitive intensity analysis, material costs benchmarks, profit margin analysis, state statistics, plant capacity analysis, employee role analysis, inflation trend benchmarks, employee pay analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and much more.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to understand the extensive statistical data sets in this report and why thousands of executives, consultants, bankers, accountants, and other professionals trust Kentley Insights for their market research needs.
The data source for the report is extensive annual expense, revenue, wage, operational, and economic surveys administered by federal and private institutions and filled out by a majority of companies in the electrical control manufacturing industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
General-purpose industrial controls
Specific-purpose industrial controls
Relays for electronic circuitry, industrial control overload, and switchgear type
Parts for industrial controls and motor-control accessories
Relay and industrial control manufacturing, nsk, total
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
Capacitors, resistors, coils, transformers, and other inductors
Printed circuit boards (without inserted components) for electronic circuitry
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Switchgear and switchboard apparatus
Misc. copper-base alloy shapes and forms (exclud. wire products, ingot, castings, cathodes, anodes, pipe, tube, rods, bar)
Misc. iron, steel, and ferroalloy ingot, shapes, and forms (excluding castings, forgings, bars, structural, wire, sheet, strip)
Sheet metal products, excluding stampings
Plastics products (including packaging, foam products, film, sheet, rod, tube, fabricated shapes, bottles, etc.)
Metal bolts, nuts, screws, washers, rivets, and other screw machine products
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Nonferrous metal castings (excluding aluminum and aluminum-based alloy)
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Electrical, Electronics, and Electromechanical Assemblers
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Mechanical Engineers
Machinists
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers
Laborers and Material Movers, Hand
General and Operations Managers
Engine and Other Machine Assemblers
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Machine Tool Cutting Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
Miscellaneous Production Workers
Drafters
Buyers and Purchasing Agents
Architectural and Engineering Managers
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