AI Visibility Index: Contract Machining & Machine Shops in Illinois

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a contract machining & machine shops supplier in Illinois, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

705 companies tracked
Last measured September 30, 2026
Next measurement October 30, 2026

Look up your company Get your monthly report

The headline numbers

Never named by AI

671 of 705

companies never appeared in a single buying question

They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.

34 named at least once
671 never named

Not sure whether you are one of them?Check your domain

Cell average: 0.11of 15
Across all 705 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.9of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.

A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.

The top ten in Illinois

These are the companies AI assistants named most often when Illinois buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.

Top 10 most AI-visible Contract Machining & Machine Shops companies in Illinois, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	BEM CNC 45 employeesSchaumburg, Illinois	Schaumburg, Illinois	7 of 15 answers
2	Waltz Brothers Inc 8 employeesWheeling, Illinois	Wheeling, Illinois	6 of 15 answers
3	ART CNC Machining Illinois 2 name variants ART CNC Machining LLCmost common3 ART CNC Machining3	Illinois	6 of 15 answers
4	E.J. Basler Co. Illinois	Illinois	6 of 15 answers
5	Mennie Machine Co Inc 260 employeesMark, Illinois	Mark, Illinois	5 of 15 answers
6	Schmid Tool & Engineering Corp. 25 employeesVilla Park, Illinois	Villa Park, Illinois	5 of 15 answers
7	Asteroid Precision 28 employeesWheeling, Illinois	Wheeling, Illinois	4 of 15 answers
8	KrisDee & Associates Illinois 2 name variants KrisDee & Associatesmost common3 KrisDee & Associates, Inc.1	Illinois	4 of 15 answers
9	Alpha Swiss Industries Inc 8 employeesCrystal Lake, Illinois 2 name variants Alpha Swiss Industriesmost common2 Alpha Swiss Industries (Alpha Swiss)1	Crystal Lake, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
10	Donson Machine 80 employeesAlsip, Illinois 2 name variants Donson Machinemost common2 Donson Machine, Inc.1	Alsip, Illinois	3 of 15 answers

51 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.

Also named, based in another state

AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not Illinois. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Pegasus Manufacturing	Connecticut	2 of 15
Advanced Medical Components (AMC)	Montana	1 of 15
American Machining Inc.	Michigan	1 of 15
First Article Inc.	Pennsylvania	1 of 15
Owens Industries	Wisconsin	1 of 15
Thompson Industries	Alabama	1 of 15

One of these yours?

A complete Blue Book listing is one of the sources assistants read in this category. Confirming your details is free.

Get your monthly report

The five questions we asked

Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.

1“Best contract machining and machine shop companies in Illinois”
2“Who supplies precision CNC milled and turned components on contract in Illinois”
3“I need a Illinois contract machining partner for a 2,000-unit stainless steel medical device run, who should I talk to”
4“Top contract machining and machine shop suppliers in Illinois for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which Illinois contract machining and machine shop providers can handle 5-axis CNC work with tight tolerance requirements”
6“List 20 contract machining and machine shop companies in Illinois with their specialties.”the roster question

Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.

Where AI drew its answers from

These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.

artcncmachining.com
2 companies
ejbasler.com
2 companies
alpha-swiss.com
2 companies
americanmachininginc.com
2 companies
comettool.net
2 companies
donsonmachine.com
2 companies
gwtechnical.com
2 companies
krisdee.com
2 companies
ltlmachining.com
2 companies
m1toolworks.com
2 companies
swebco.com
2 companies
thomasonmachine.com
2 companies

71 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 67 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Illinois in context

Illinois ranks 31st of 35 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 7%.

Illinois (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (7%)

Look up a company

Enter a domain or a company name to see whether it is tracked in this cell, and whether the answers named it. This is a lookup against a measurement already taken, so it is instant.

Try bemcnc.com or any other domain

The public Index publishes one measurement per cell. A monthly report covers your own company:

Every question it was named on
Every question it was not
What moved

Your own position is only ever shown to you.