AI Visibility Index: Industrial & Process Controls in California

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

928 of 948

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.

20 named at least once
928 never named

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Cell average: 0.04of 15
Across all 948 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 3.9of 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 California

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial & Process Controls companies in California, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	CFM-San Diego Inc 6 employeesCarlsbad, California 2 name variants CFM‑San Diego, Inc.most common5 CFM-San Diego (CFM Process Control Specialists)1	Carlsbad, California	6 of 15 answers
2	Central California Instruments California	California	5 of 15 answers
3	Syberdyne California	California	5 of 15 answers
4	Santa Clara Systems 50 employeesAlameda, California	Alameda, California	4 of 15 answers
5	Fisher Electrical Integration California	California	4 of 15 answers
6	Clayton Controls, Inc. 32 employeesCampbell, California	Campbell, California	3 of 15 answers
7	CTI Controltech 8 employeesSan Ramon, California	San Ramon, California	3 of 15 answers
8	South Coast Controls 10 employeesAnaheim, California	Anaheim, California	3 of 15 answers
9	Trimax Systems LLC 20 employeesBrea, California	Brea, California	3 of 15 answers
10	Calcon Systems California 2 name variants Calcon Systemsmost common2 Calcon Systems, Inc.1	California	3 of 15 answers

46 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 California. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Flotek	New Jersey	4 of 15
Caltrol	Hawaii	3 of 15
ICS Industries LLC	New York	3 of 15
Tesco Controls	Indiana	3 of 15
Applied Motion Systems	Washington	2 of 15
Automation Group	Minnesota	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 and process controls in California”
2“Who supplies PLC-based industrial control panels in California”
3“I need a California industrial controls partner for automating a new production line, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial and process controls suppliers in California for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which California industrial controls integrators can handle safety-rated motion control systems”
6“List 20 industrial and process controls companies in California 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
4 companies
cfmcontrols.com
2 companies
icsindustriesllc.com
2 companies
reddit.comDirectory
2 companies
appliedmotionsystems.com
2 companies
calcon.com
2 companies
cfmsd.com
2 companies
comoso.mfcp.com
2 companies
rsdtotalcontrol.com
2 companies
tescocontrols.com
2 companies
tmprocesscontrols.com
2 companies
caltrol.com
1 company

74 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 64 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

California in context

California ranks 32nd of 32 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 6%.

California (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (6%)

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