AI Visibility Index: Industrial Bearings in Ohio

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

83 of 102

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
83 never named

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Cell average: 0.67of 15
Across all 102 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 6.4of 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 Bearings companies in Ohio, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Applied Industrial Technologies 25 employeesCleveland, Ohio 3 name variants Applied Industrial Technologiesmost common11 Applied Industrial Technologies – Aerospace & Defense (Cincinnati, OH)2 Applied Industrial Technologies – Cincinnati Aerospace & Defense1	Cleveland, Ohio	14 of 15 answers
2	HMS Industries, LLC 8 employeesWestlake, Ohio 2 name variants HMS Industriesmost common6 HMS Industries, LLC4	Westlake, Ohio	10 of 15 answers
3	Bearing & Transmission Supply Co. Ohio 2 name variants Bearing & Transmission Supply Co.most common5 Bearing & Transmission Supply4	Ohio	9 of 15 answers
4	BDI-Bearing Distributors Inc 50 employeesCleveland, Ohio	Cleveland, Ohio	6 of 15 answers
5	Akron Bearing Co. 18 employeesAkron, Ohio 4 name variants Akron Bearing Co.most common2 Akron Bearing Company, Inc.1 Akron Bearing Co., Inc.1 Akron Bearing Company1	Akron, Ohio	5 of 15 answers
6	Bearing & Drive Systems 21 employeesStrongsville, Ohio	Strongsville, Ohio	5 of 15 answers
7	Timken Co 1,000 employeesBucyrus, Ohio 2 name variants Timken Companymost common4 Timken Company (North Canton, OH)1	Bucyrus, Ohio	5 of 15 answers
8	Bearing Distributors Inc 6 employeesSolon, Ohio	Solon, Ohio	4 of 15 answers
9	McNeil Industries 24 employeesPainesville, Ohio 2 name variants McNeil Industries – MAXAM Bearingsmost common2 McNeil Industries / MAXAM Bearings (Painesville, OH)1	Painesville, Ohio	3 of 15 answers
10	Ritbearing 3 employeesBerea, Ohio	Berea, Ohio	3 of 15 answers

18 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
Capital City Conveyor & Supply	North Dakota	2 of 15
General Aircraft Company (Cleveland, OH)	California	1 of 15
Torque Drives (Purvis Industries division)	Arkansas	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 suppliers of industrial bearings in Ohio”
2“Who supplies precision angular contact ball bearings in Ohio”
3“I need a Ohio bearing supplier for a long-run high-speed conveyor line upgrade, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial bearings suppliers in Ohio for OEM machinery buyers”
5“Which Ohio industrial bearing suppliers can handle aerospace-grade bearings with full traceability and certification”
6“List 20 industrial bearings 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.

globalspec.comDirectory
9 companies
bearingtrans.com
2 companies
en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
2 companies
thomasnet.comDirectory
2 companies
timken.com
2 companies
applied.com
2 companies
gjbearing.com
2 companies
hms-ind.com
2 companies
mcneilindustries.com
2 companies
timkentech.com
2 companies
websterchain.com
2 companies
accumet.net
1 company

41 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 33 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 5th of 6 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 21%.

Ohio (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (21%)

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