AI Visibility Index: Industrial Gears in Ohio

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial gears 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

91 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.

11 named at least once
91 never named

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Cell average: 0.64of 15
Across all 102 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 6.9of 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 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 Gears companies in Ohio, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Stahl Gear & Machine Co. 50 employeesCleveland, Ohio 2 name variants Stahl Gear & Machine Co.most common13 Stahl Gear & Machine1	Cleveland, Ohio	14 of 15 answers
2	Cleveland Gear Co Inc Cleveland, Ohio	Cleveland, Ohio	11 of 15 answers
3	Canton Gear Manufacturing & Designing 10 employeesCanton, Ohio	Canton, Ohio	8 of 15 answers
4	Xtek, Inc Sharonville, Ohio	Sharonville, Ohio	8 of 15 answers
5	HORSBURGH & SCOTT 325 employeesCleveland, Ohio	Cleveland, Ohio	7 of 15 answers
6	Northend Gear & Machine 15 employeesFairfield, Ohio	Fairfield, Ohio	6 of 15 answers
7	Gear Tec Inc 30 employeesWilloughby, Ohio 2 name variants GearTec, Inc.most common3 GearTec2	Willoughby, Ohio	5 of 15 answers
8	Federal Gear & Machine Ohio	Ohio	4 of 15 answers
9	MLX Engineering LLC Ohio 2 name variants MLX Engineering LLCmost common2 MLX Engineering1	Ohio	3 of 15 answers
10	NPK – Gears by NPK Ohio	Ohio	3 of 15 answers

17 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
Timron Precision Gear	Minnesota	2 of 15
Ascent Precision Gear Corporation	Florida	1 of 15
Carnes‑Miller Gear	North Carolina	1 of 15
INSCO Corporation	North Carolina	1 of 15
Precision Gear Company	New York	1 of 15
Schafer Gear Works – Ohio facility (via Schafer Industries)	Indiana	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 gears in Ohio”
2“Who supplies precision ground helical gears in Ohio”
3“I need a Ohio gear manufacturer for a custom low-backlash gearbox project, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial gears suppliers in Ohio for OEM machinery buyers”
5“Which Ohio gear manufacturers can handle carburized and ground gears to AGMA 10 or better”
6“List 20 industrial gears 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.

cantongear.com
4 companies
industrial-gears.com
4 companies
jobshopsohio.com
3 companies
stahlgear.com
2 companies
geartec.com
2 companies
avongear.com
2 companies
globalspec.comDirectory
2 companies
graessnerusa.com
2 companies
mlxengineeringllc.com
2 companies
timrongear.com
2 companies
clevelandgear.com
1 company
horsburgh-scott.com
1 company

41 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 28 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 7th of 8 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 14%.

Ohio (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (14%)

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