AI Visibility Index: Industrial Automation & Robotics in Ohio

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

130 of 149

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.

19 named at least once
130 never named

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Cell average: 0.35of 15
Across all 149 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 5.4of 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 Industrial Automation & Robotics companies in Ohio, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Midwest Integration & Automation Ohio	Ohio	9 of 15 answers
2	South Shore Controls Inc 25 employeesMentor, Ohio	Mentor, Ohio	8 of 15 answers
3	Improved Automation Ohio 2 name variants Improved Automationmost common5 Improved Automation LLC2	Ohio	7 of 15 answers
4	Nile Controls Ohio	Ohio	7 of 15 answers
5	APT Manufacturing Solutions 30 employeesHicksville, Ohio 2 name variants APT Manufacturing Solutionsmost common4 APT MANUFACTURINGsolutions1	Hicksville, Ohio	5 of 15 answers
6	KC Robotics 25 employeesWest Chester Township, Ohio 2 name variants KC Roboticsmost common3 KC Robotics, Inc.1	West Chester Township, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
7	Stryver Manufacturing Inc 30 employeesTrotwood, Ohio 2 name variants Stryver Manufacturing Inc.most common2 Stryver Manufacturing2	Trotwood, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
8	Yac Robot Systems Inc 10 employeesHamilton, Ohio 2 name variants YAC Robot Systemsmost common2 YAC Robot System2	Hamilton, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
9	Autotec Solutions 30 employeesToledo, Ohio	Toledo, Ohio	3 of 15 answers
10	Motion Controls Robotics Inc 32 employeesFremont, Ohio 3 name variants MOTION CONTROLS ROBOTICS (MCRI Group)most common1 Motion Controls Robotics (MCRI)1 Motion Controls Robotics1	Fremont, Ohio	3 of 15 answers

34 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
Great Lakes Machinery & Automation	Michigan	9 of 15
Omni Automation	Pennsylvania	4 of 15
Automated Machine Systems (AMS)	Massachusetts	1 of 15
Combined Technologies (ComTech Automation)	Illinois	1 of 15
ComTech (ComTech Robotics and Automation Group)	North Carolina	1 of 15
EMI (Engineered Material Handling / Core Solutions Automation)	Colorado	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 Ohio”
2“Who supplies turnkey robotic palletizing cells in Ohio”
3“I need a Ohio automation partner for a fully automated assembly line upgrade, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial automation and robotics suppliers in Ohio for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Ohio industrial automation and robotics integrators can handle multi-robot vision-guided pick-and-place systems”
6“List 20 industrial automation and robotics 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.

en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
5 companies
robottoday.com
3 companies
improvedautomationllc.com
2 companies
motioncontrolsrobotics.com
2 companies
omniautomation.com
2 companies
yac-robot.com
2 companies
aptmfg.com
2 companies
hamrickmfg.com
2 companies
mcri-group.com
2 companies
otcindustrial.com
2 companies
rpgatta.com
2 companies
stryver.com
2 companies

61 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 50 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 6th 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%.

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