Listing Guidelines
Who Automation-List is for
Automation-List is a curated directory of industrial automation solution providers — companies that design, build, integrate, or engineer automation systems. Our goal is a directory an engineer or buyer can trust: when you find a company here, it does real automation work, not just sell parts.
That focus is what keeps the directory useful. A list that includes every hardware reseller and marketplace storefront becomes noise. So we hold a clear line, and we review every submission manually against it.
Who we list
Your company fits if automation is part of what you do, not just what you sell:
- System integrators — you design and commission automation systems for clients
- Machine builders and OEMs — you build machines with integrated control systems
- MES, SCADA, and PLC vendors — you provide the platforms that run production
- Automation and control software — you develop software for manufacturing, control, or industrial data
- Engineering and automation consultancies — you plan, specify, or advise on automation projects
- Control-system component manufacturers — you manufacture automation components and maintain a genuine engineering presence (documentation, application engineering, support)
Who we don't list
- Commodity hardware resellers and distributors whose role is shipping products, with no automation engineering involvement
- Generic component sellers — actuators, cables, connectors, enclosures — sold as catalogue products with no system-level offering
- Marketplace and drop-ship storefronts — product-grid sites, "add to cart" catalogues, no engineering or services content
- Companies with no mappable automation category — if what you do doesn't fit one of our categories, it isn't a fit for the directory
The line we draw
The test isn't "hardware vs. software" — plenty of hardware companies belong here. The test is your role in the automation stack. Do you engineer, integrate, or build automation, or do you resell components? A company that manufactures PLCs and supports the engineers deploying them belongs here. A storefront reselling the same PLCs alongside cables and enclosures, with no engineering role, does not.
A few examples:
- A firm that sells linear actuators and designs custom motion systems for machine builders → listed (they engineer)
- A storefront selling linear actuators from a product catalogue → not listed (they resell)
- A distributor that also does panel building and commissioning → listed (they add engineering value)
- A distributor that only warehouses and ships → not listed
Not sure if you qualify?
Submit anyway. Include a short description of what you actually build or deliver — not just your product range. We review every entry by hand, and if you're a borderline case, that description is what tips the decision. If you're a genuine automation company, err toward submitting.
How submissions are handled
- You submit your company and confirm your email — a one-click step that verifies the submission is real.
- Your entry enters our manual review queue.
- We check it against these guidelines and either publish it or decline it.
- If you're declined and believe it was an error, reply to your confirmation email and tell us what we missed.
Ready to apply? Submit your company.