AI Visibility Index: Custom & Special Machinery in Ohio

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a custom & special machinery supplier in Ohio, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

143 of 168

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.

25 named at least once
143 never named

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Cell average: 0.39of 15
Across all 168 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 5.3of 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 Ohio

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Custom & Special Machinery companies in Ohio, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Machine Concepts 32 employeesMinster, Ohio	Minster, Ohio	11 of 15 answers
2	Forward Motion Inc. Ohio	Ohio	7 of 15 answers
3	Rialto Manufacturing Inc 19 employeesMarion, Ohio	Marion, Ohio	6 of 15 answers
4	Buckeye Machine Fabricators, Inc. Ohio 2 name variants Buckeye Machine Fabricators, Inc.most common5 Buckeye Machine Fabricators1	Ohio	6 of 15 answers
5	FC Precision Ohio	Ohio	5 of 15 answers
6	Steven Douglas Corp. 20 employeesPainesville, Ohio 3 name variants Steven Douglas Corp. (SDC Automation)most common2 SDC (Steven Douglas Corp.)1 Steven Douglas Corp. (SDC)1	Painesville, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
7	Stryver Manufacturing Inc 30 employeesTrotwood, Ohio 2 name variants Stryver Manufacturing Inc.most common3 Stryver Manufacturing1	Trotwood, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
8	rpGatta Ohio 2 name variants rpGatta, Inc.most common2 rpGatta2	Ohio	4 of 15 answers
9	APT Manufacturing Solutions 30 employeesHicksville, Ohio	Hicksville, Ohio	3 of 15 answers
10	B-K Tool & Design 20 employeesKalida, Ohio	Kalida, Ohio	3 of 15 answers

37 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 Ohio. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Tool Tech	Missouri	6 of 15
Engineered Vision	Connecticut	5 of 15
Omni Automation	Pennsylvania	4 of 15
Great Lakes Machinery & Automation	Michigan	2 of 15
System Packaging	California	2 of 15
Custom Automation Inc.	Minnesota	1 of 15

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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 custom and special machinery companies in Ohio”
2“Who supplies custom automated assembly machinery in Ohio”
3“I need a Ohio custom machinery partner for a new high-speed packaging line, who should I talk to”
4“Top custom and special machinery suppliers in Ohio for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Ohio custom machinery builders can handle turnkey design, fabrication, and integration of robotic systems”
6“List 20 custom and special machinery companies in Ohio 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.

buckeyemachine.com
4 companies
sdcautomation.com
3 companies
pdbinc.com
3 companies
thomasnet.comDirectory
2 companies
tooltech.com
2 companies
glma-group.com
2 companies
mwohio.com
2 companies
palmermfg.com
2 companies
rpgatta.com
2 companies
stryver.com
2 companies
zagar.com
2 companies
machineconcepts.com
1 company

64 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 54 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Ohio in context

Ohio ranks 10th of 10 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 20%.

Ohio (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (20%)

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