AI Visibility Index: Industrial & Process Controls in Massachusetts

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

305 of 322

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.

17 named at least once
305 never named

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Cell average: 0.14of 15
Across all 322 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.7of 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 Massachusetts

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Industrial & Process Controls companies in Massachusetts, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Omni Control Technology, Inc 10 employeesWhitinsville, Massachusetts	Whitinsville, Massachusetts	9 of 15 answers
2	Volt Controls Massachusetts	Massachusetts	8 of 15 answers
3	Merrimac Industrial Sales Inc 35 employeesHaverhill, Massachusetts	Haverhill, Massachusetts	6 of 15 answers
4	Reptek LLC Massachusetts	Massachusetts	5 of 15 answers
5	Northeast Engineering Inc 7 employeesBourne, Massachusetts 2 name variants Northeast Engineeringmost common4 Northeast Engineering (as ControlAir distributor)1	Bourne, Massachusetts	4 of 15 answers
6	Applewood Controls Inc 5 employeesAyer, Massachusetts	Ayer, Massachusetts	3 of 15 answers
7	Control 7, Inc. 20 employeesBridgewater, Massachusetts	Bridgewater, Massachusetts	3 of 15 answers
8	NECI 7 employeesFoxborough, Massachusetts	Foxborough, Massachusetts	3 of 15 answers
9	Pilgrim Instrument and Controls 7 employeesWalpole, Massachusetts	Walpole, Massachusetts	3 of 15 answers
10	RT Engineering 7 employeesFranklin, Massachusetts 2 name variants RT Engineeringmost common2 RT Engineering Corporation1	Franklin, Massachusetts	3 of 15 answers

27 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 Massachusetts. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Brookfield (AMETEK Brookfield)	Michigan	3 of 15
DMC, Inc.	New York	2 of 15
AEC Engineering	California	1 of 15
Bristol Instruments	New York	1 of 15
Emerson Swan	New York	1 of 15
F.W. Webb Company – Process Controls division	New York	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 Massachusetts”
2“Who supplies PLC-based industrial control panels in Massachusetts”
3“I need a Massachusetts industrial controls partner for automating a new production line, who should I talk to”
4“Top industrial and process controls suppliers in Massachusetts for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Massachusetts industrial controls integrators can handle safety-rated motion control systems”
6“List 20 industrial and process controls companies in Massachusetts 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
controlair.com
3 companies
yaskawa.com
3 companies
automatech.com
2 companies
thomasnet.comDirectory
2 companies
amcoig.com
1 company
merrimacindustrial.com
1 company
neomatrixinc.com
1 company
voltcontrols.com
1 company
aec-engineering.com
1 company
ameselectrical.com
1 company
applewoodcontrols.com
1 company

51 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 44 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Massachusetts in context

Massachusetts ranks 25th 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%.

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

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