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MeasuredAI Visibility Index: Industrial & Process Controls in North Carolina
When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial & process controls supplier in North Carolina, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.
- 214 companies tracked
- Last measured September 30, 2026
- Next measurement October 30, 2026
The headline numbers
Never named by AI
199 of 214
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.
- 15 named at least once
- 199 never named
- Cell average
- 0.18of 15
Across all 214 tracked companies.
- Top ten average
- 4.9of 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 North Carolina
These are the companies AI assistants named most often when North Carolina buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.
| Rank | Company | Location | AI visibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIMTEC Automation LLC 33 employeesCharlotte, North Carolina | Charlotte, North Carolina | 7 of 15 answers |
| 2 | Island Automation 9 employeesSwansboro, North Carolina 2 name variants
| Swansboro, North Carolina | 7 of 15 answers |
| 3 | Graybrooke Technologies North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 7 of 15 answers |
| 4 | M.R. Snyder Company 20 employeesMonroe, North Carolina 3 name variants
| Monroe, North Carolina | 6 of 15 answers |
| 5 | AikenControls North Carolina | North Carolina | 5 of 15 answers |
| 6 | Carotek Inc - Carolinas 89 employeesMatthews, North Carolina | Matthews, North Carolina | 4 of 15 answers |
| 7 | Sinfield Technologies North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 4 of 15 answers |
| 8 | AX Control Inc. North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
| 9 | Industrial Panel Company North Carolina | North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
| 10 | R.A. Moore North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
28 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 North Carolina. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.
| Company | State | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor Controls | Michigan | 11 of 15 |
| Think-PLC | Virginia | 5 of 15 |
| Southern Industrial Constructors – Automation Group | South Carolina | 3 of 15 |
| ABCO Automation | New Jersey | 1 of 15 |
| Control Technologies, LLC | Massachusetts | 1 of 15 |
| Dynamic Systems Technologies | Virginia | 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 North Carolina”
- 2“Who supplies PLC-based industrial control panels in North Carolina”
- 3“I need a North Carolina industrial controls partner for automating a new production line, who should I talk to”
- 4“Top industrial and process controls suppliers in North Carolina for manufacturing engineering buyers”
- 5“Which North Carolina industrial controls integrators can handle safety-rated motion control systems”
- 6“List 20 industrial and process controls companies in North Carolina 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.
- thomasnet.comDirectory3 companies
- mrsnyder.com3 companies
- alliedautomation.com2 companies
- axcontrol.com2 companies
- controlsource.com2 companies
- ese-co.com2 companies
- flowcontrolgroup.com2 companies
- graybrooke.com2 companies
- islandautomation.com2 companies
- polarisautomation.com2 companies
- ramoore.com2 companies
- sinfieldtech.com2 companies
57 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 50 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.
North Carolina in context
North Carolina ranks 18th 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%.
- Tennessee19%
- Kansas19%
- South Carolina16%
- Utah15%
- Kentucky14%
- Louisiana14%
- Georgia13%
- Alabama12%
- New Hampshire12%
- Minnesota11%
- Oklahoma10%
- Wisconsin10%
- Missouri10%
- Washington9%
- Arizona8%
- Oregon8%
- Indiana8%
- North Carolina7%
- Connecticut7%
- Pennsylvania7%
- New Jersey6%
- Michigan6%
- Illinois6%
- Colorado5%
- Massachusetts5%
- Ohio5%
- Maryland5%
- Texas4%
- Virginia4%
- Florida3%
- New York3%
- California2%
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