AI Visibility Index: Industrial Machinery & Equipment Distributors in Illinois

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

276 of 308

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.

32 named at least once
276 never named

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Cell average: 0.18of 15
Across all 308 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 3.4of 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 Illinois

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial Machinery & Equipment Distributors companies in Illinois, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Integrated Machinery Systems 11 employeesItasca, Illinois 2 name variants Integrated Machinery Systems (IMS)most common3 Integrated Machinery Systems3	Itasca, Illinois	6 of 15 answers
2	Exact Automation Illinois	Illinois	4 of 15 answers
3	Amflex Packaging Corporation 5 employeesSkokie, Illinois	Skokie, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
4	Matis Inc. 13 employeesChicago Ridge, Illinois	Chicago Ridge, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
5	Pyramid Packaging, Inc. 7 employeesNorthbrook, Illinois	Northbrook, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
6	Wolter, Inc. 50 employeesRockford, Illinois	Rockford, Illinois	3 of 15 answers
7	Fuji Robotics Americas Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
8	Midwest Machinery Solutions Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
9	Paxiom Group Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers
10	Shelby Machinery LLC Illinois	Illinois	3 of 15 answers

48 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 Illinois. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Delta Industries	Idaho	3 of 15
Grainger	Delaware	3 of 15
APT Manufacturing Solutions	Ohio	2 of 15
Lawson Products	Texas	2 of 15
Morris	South Dakota	2 of 15
W.W. Grainger	Delaware	2 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 machinery and equipment distributors in Illinois”
2“Who supplies automated palletizing systems through distributors in Illinois”
3“I need a Illinois industrial machinery distributor to support a new packaging line installation, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial machinery and equipment distributors in Illinois for manufacturing plant buyers”
5“Which Illinois industrial machinery distributors can provide turnkey installation and maintenance support”
6“List 20 industrial machinery and equipment distributors in Illinois 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.

web.tmaillinois.org
9 companies
tmaillinois.org
8 companies
en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
7 companies
installationservicesil.com
3 companies
deltaind.net
2 companies
umprotech.com
2 companies
1sourcemh.com
1 company
abbottsupply.net
1 company
amflexpackagingcorp.com
1 company
ampmachinery.com
1 company
aptmfg.com
1 company
ascendpkg.com
1 company

70 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 62 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Illinois in context

Illinois ranks 26th of 31 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%.

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

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