AI Visibility Index: Jigs, Fixtures & Custom Tooling in North Carolina

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

58 of 70

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.

12 named at least once
58 never named

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Cell average: 0.89of 15
Across all 70 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 8of 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.

Top 10 most AI-visible Jigs, Fixtures & Custom Tooling companies in North Carolina, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	James Tool Machine & Engineering 122 employeesMorganton, North Carolina 2 name variants James Tool Machine & Engineeringmost common10 James Tool Machine & Engineering, Inc.4	Morganton, North Carolina	14 of 15 answers
2	Craft Onyx North Carolina	North Carolina	12 of 15 answers
3	S & D Machine & Tool Inc 28 employeesDurham, North Carolina 2 name variants S&D Machine and Tool, Inc.most common8 S & D Machine & Tool2	Durham, North Carolina	10 of 15 answers
4	Southern Precision Tooling North Carolina	North Carolina	9 of 15 answers
5	North Carolina Manufacturing Inc 8 employeesGoldsboro, North Carolina	Goldsboro, North Carolina	8 of 15 answers
6	Daystar Machining Technologies Inc. 35 employeesFletcher, North Carolina	Fletcher, North Carolina	7 of 15 answers
7	JMK Tool & Die Inc 4 employeesCoats, North Carolina 2 name variants JMK Tool & Die, Inc.most common6 JMK Tool & Die1	Coats, North Carolina	7 of 15 answers
8	Toner Machining Technologies 40 employeesMorganton, North Carolina	Morganton, North Carolina	6 of 15 answers
9	Master WorkHolding Inc. North Carolina	North Carolina	4 of 15 answers
10	Allied Automation Inc 12 employeesApex, North Carolina 2 name variants Allied Automationmost common2 Allied Automation Inc.1	Apex, North Carolina	3 of 15 answers

18 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
Superior Tooling, Inc.	Arkansas	8 of 15
Stabb Designs	Washington	4 of 15
Dynamics Group	Pennsylvania	1 of 15
Industrial & Manufacturing Solutions (IMS)	Alabama	1 of 15
Linear Solutions Inc. (LSI)	Utah	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 North Carolina”
2“Who supplies custom quick-change machining fixtures in North Carolina”
3“I need a North Carolina 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 North Carolina for manufacturing engineering buyers”
5“Which North Carolina 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 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.

sti-nc.com
4 companies
thomasnet.comDirectory
2 companies
stabbdesigns.com
2 companies
alliedautomation.com
2 companies
en.wikipedia.orgDirectory
2 companies
jamestool.com
2 companies
jmktoolanddie.com
2 companies
sdmachinetool.com
2 companies
stellarmtool.com
2 companies
wentechnology.com
2 companies
craftonyx.com
1 company
daystarmachining.com
1 company

41 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 34 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 4th 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%.

North Carolina (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (9%)

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