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SNI 26.510—Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation

Detailed Group · Svensk näringsgrensindelning (2025)

Where 26.510 sits

  1. C Manufacturing
  2. 26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
  3. 26.5 Manufacture of measuring testing instruments, clocks and watches
  4. 26.51 Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation
  5. 26.510 Manufacture of instruments and appliances for measuring, testing and navigation

What 26.510 includes

  • Manufacture of systems and instruments for search, detection, navigation, and control, and aeronautical and nautical instruments; automatic controls and regulators for applications such as heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and appliances; instruments and apparatus for measuring, displaying, indicating, recording, transmitting, and controlling temperature, humidity, pressure, vacuum, combustion, flow, level, viscosity, density, acidity, concentration, and rotation; totalizers for liquids; instruments for measuring and testing the properties of electricity and electrical signals; instruments and instrumentation systems for laboratory analysis of the chemical or physical composition or concentration of solid, liquid, gaseous, or composite materials; other measuring and testing instruments and parts thereof.
  • Manufacture of non-electrical equipment for measuring, testing and navigation (except simple mechanical tools) is reported here.
  • Manufacture of instruments for aircraft engines
  • Manufacture of equipment for testing motor vehicle emissions
  • Manufacture of instruments for meteorology
  • Manufacturing of equipment for testing and inspecting physical properties
  • Manufacturing of lie detectors
  • Manufacture of instruments for radiation detection and monitoring
  • Manufacture of surveying instruments
  • Manufacture of liquid thermometers and bimetallic thermometers (except for medical purposes)
  • Manufacturing of hygrostats
  • Manufacturing of control equipment for water-based heating systems
  • Manufacture of burner control equipment
  • Manufacturing of spectrometers
  • Manufacture of compressed air meters
  • Manufacture of consumption meters (e.g. water, gas, electricity)
  • Manufacturing of flow meters and counters
  • Manufacturing of piece counters
  • Manufacture of mine detectors, pulse or signal generators; metal detectors
  • Manufacture of equipment for search, detection, navigation, as well as aviation and nautical equipment, including sonar buoys
  • Manufacturing of radar equipment
  • Manufacturing of GPS devices
  • Manufacture of burglar and fire alarm systems that transmit signals to a control station
  • Manufacturing of environmental control equipment and automatic control for appliances
  • Manufacturing of measuring and recording equipment (e.g. tachographs)
  • Manufacturing of motion detectors
  • Radar manufacturing
  • Manufacture of laboratory analysis instruments (e.g. blood analysis equipment)
  • Manufacture of laboratory scales, incubators and various laboratory devices for measurement, testing, etc.
  • Manufacturing of sensors and sensing equipment
  • Hydraulic or pneumatic instruments and apparatus for automatic regulation, self-manufactured, repair
  • Electronic instruments and apparatus for measuring and controlling heat, sound level or light intensity, manufacturing
  • Odometers, measurement systems in vehicles for recording the distance traveled, manufacturing

What 26.510 excludes

  • Manufacture of answering machines, see 26.300
  • Manufacture of radiation equipment, see 26.600
  • Manufacture of optical positioning equipment, see 26.700
  • Manufacture of dictaphones, see 28.230
  • Manufacture of weighing instruments (except sensitive laboratory balances), spirit levels, tape measures etc., see 28.290
  • Manufacture of medical thermometers, see 32.501
  • Installation of equipment for controlling industrial processes, see 33.200

Example activities

  • fire alarm systems, manufacturing
  • installation and repair of home-made burglar alarm systems and fire alarm systems
  • alarms (not car), manufacturing
  • anti-theft alarm systems (not for cars), manufacturing
  • smoke detectors, ionizing, manufacturing
  • fire protection systems, manufacturing
  • ergometers, manufacturing
  • lie detectors, manufacturing
  • hygrostats, manufacturing
  • thermographs (thermal cameras), manufacturing
  • proton microscope, manufacturing
  • instruments and apparatus for navigation such as gps and galileo, manufacturing
  • laboratory scales, manufacturing
  • radiation detectors, manufacturing
  • micrometers, manufacturing
  • hydraulic or pneumatic instruments and apparatus for automatic control, manufacturing
  • flowmeter manufacturing
  • heart rate monitors, heart rate watches, manufacturing
  • mentometers, manufacturing
  • ammeter, manufacturing
  • pharmacy scales, manufacturing
  • barometers, manufacturing
  • gasoline meters, manufacturing
  • diffraction cameras, manufacturing

26.510 in other systems

SICUnited States (legacy)

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