AI Visibility Index: Jigs, Fixtures & Custom Tooling in Michigan

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a jigs, fixtures & custom tooling supplier in Michigan, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

473 of 500

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.

27 named at least once
473 never named

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Cell average: 0.15of 15
Across all 500 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 5.4of 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 Michigan

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Jigs, Fixtures & Custom Tooling companies in Michigan, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Dimension Machine LLC 15 employeesClinton twp, Michigan	Clinton twp, Michigan	8 of 15 answers
2	Smith Bros Tool 55 employeesShelby Twp, Michigan	Shelby Twp, Michigan	8 of 15 answers
3	D&F Corporation 10 employeesSterling Heights, Michigan	Sterling Heights, Michigan	7 of 15 answers
4	Great Lakes Jig & Fixture 7 employeesMiddleville, Michigan 2 name variants Great Lakes Jig & Fixturemost common5 Great Lakes Jig & Fixture, LLC1	Middleville, Michigan	6 of 15 answers
5	CBS Tool Inc 5 employeesShelby Township, Michigan	Shelby Township, Michigan	5 of 15 answers
6	PAWS Workholding Michigan	Michigan	5 of 15 answers
7	Michigan Precision Tool & Engineer 20 employeesDowagiac, Michigan 2 name variants Michigan Precision Toolmost common3 Michigan Precision Tool & Manufacturing1	Dowagiac, Michigan	4 of 15 answers
8	Suburban Tool, Inc. 13 employeesAuburn Hills, Michigan	Auburn Hills, Michigan	4 of 15 answers
9	Triple E LLC 23 employeesParma, Michigan	Parma, Michigan	4 of 15 answers
10	C D Tool & Gage 5 employeesWalker, Michigan	Walker, Michigan	3 of 15 answers

36 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 Michigan. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Dynamics Group	Pennsylvania	10 of 15
Focal Point CNC Solutions	California	4 of 15
Alliance Engineering, Inc.	Utah	2 of 15
Twizted Metal	North Carolina	2 of 15
Drewco Corporation	Wisconsin	1 of 15
Gable Manufacturing	Idaho	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 jigs, fixtures and custom tooling in Michigan”
2“Who supplies custom quick-change machining fixtures in Michigan”
3“I need a Michigan partner to design and build production jigs and fixtures for a new assembly line, who should I talk to”
4“Top jigs, fixtures and custom tooling suppliers in Michigan for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which Michigan jig, fixture and custom tooling specialists can design and build fully modular CNC workholding systems”
6“List 20 jigs, fixtures and custom tooling companies in Michigan 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.

fabmasters.net
2 companies
gljf.us
2 companies
michiganprecisiontool.com
2 companies
newwayautomation.co
2 companies
troytools.com
2 companies
twiztedmetal.net
2 companies
dynamics-group.com
1 company
freertool.com
1 company
allbendingandtubularproducts.com
1 company
allianceenginc.com
1 company
bluephotongrip.com
1 company
buckinghamtool.com
1 company

55 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 53 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Michigan in context

Michigan ranks 16th of 17 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 9%.

Michigan (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (9%)

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