AI Visibility Index: Industrial Automation & Robotics in Michigan

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial automation & robotics supplier in Michigan, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

176 of 199

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.

23 named at least once
176 never named

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Cell average: 0.3of 15
Across all 199 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.7of 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 Michigan

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial Automation & Robotics companies in Michigan, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	JR Automation 87 employeesStevensville, Michigan	Stevensville, Michigan	7 of 15 answers
2	Northtech Automation Michigan	Michigan	7 of 15 answers
3	FANUC America Corporation - Headquarters 864 employeesRochester Hills, Michigan 2 name variants FANUC Americamost common3 FANUC America Corporation2	Rochester Hills, Michigan	5 of 15 answers
4	Flexible Automation Inc 5 employeesBurton, Michigan	Burton, Michigan	5 of 15 answers
5	4D Systems Michigan	Michigan	5 of 15 answers
6	Automated Systems Inc 44 employeesAuburn Hills, Michigan 2 name variants Automated Systems, Inc. (ASI)most common2 Automated Systems, Inc.2	Auburn Hills, Michigan	4 of 15 answers
7	iAutomate Michigan 2 name variants iAutomate LLCmost common2 iAutomate2	Michigan	4 of 15 answers
8	Vector Automation Michigan	Michigan	4 of 15 answers
9	Applied Tech & Resources 22 employeesLapeer, Michigan 2 name variants Applied Technologies & Resources, Inc.most common2 Applied Technologies & Resources (ATR)1	Lapeer, Michigan	3 of 15 answers
10	Automated Production Systems 30 employeesSterling Heights, Michigan 2 name variants Automated Production Systems Inc. (APS)most common2 APS – Automation & Production Systems1	Sterling Heights, Michigan	3 of 15 answers

50 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 Michigan. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Alliance Engineering, Inc.	Utah	2 of 15
IMG	Ohio	2 of 15
ABB Robotics – Auburn Hills	Texas	1 of 15
CEC Controls (SCIO Automation)	Kentucky	1 of 15
CIM Systems, Inc.	Indiana	1 of 15
ITR (Industrial Technology Resource)	Ontario	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 industrial automation and robotics companies in Michigan”
2“Who supplies turnkey robotic palletizing cells in Michigan”
3“I need a Michigan automation partner for a fully automated assembly line upgrade, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial automation and robotics suppliers in Michigan for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Michigan industrial automation and robotics integrators can handle multi-robot vision-guided pick-and-place systems”
6“List 20 industrial automation and robotics companies in Michigan 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.

automatedsystemsinc.com
3 companies
thomasnet.comDirectory
3 companies
fanucamerica.com
3 companies
img-na.com
3 companies
itrsolutions.com
3 companies
michiganbusiness.org
3 companies
iautomatellc.com
2 companies
robottoday.com
2 companies
appliedtri.com
2 companies
apsmi.com
2 companies
conveyability.com
2 companies
en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
2 companies

68 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 61 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Michigan in context

Michigan ranks 7th of 12 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 12%.

Michigan (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (12%)

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