IDEX Corporation (IEX)

Pumps, flow meters and fire equipment maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 69 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

An engineered products maker whose filing states 8,700 employees and nothing by segment, so machinery leads by description with a quarter at instruments for its metering and optical products.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 39% at the end of 2028, 42% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 42% desk work, 16% people work and 42% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 58% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

8,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the data service's 53% United States is revenue.

The filing: “Employees At December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 8,700 employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,700 employees at December 31, 2025 (9,000 a year earlier); nothing by kind of work, country or status; an annual engagement survey and a Global Leadership Conference.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Caterpillar Inc. (CAT, 118,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
• Deere & Company (DE, 73,100 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH, 59,850 employees)18% now, 38% by 2028
• Carrier Global Corporation (CARR, 47,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
• Trane Technologies plc (TT, 44,000 employees)18% now, 33% by 2028
• Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SWK, 43,500 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW, 43,000 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
• Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT, 36,500 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

11 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI as a competitive risk, competitors may adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning to pursue new products more quickly, and says the rapid adoption of AI technologies may intensify its cybersecurity risks.

• “The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: levels of industrial activity and economic conditions in the U.S. and other countries around the world, including uncertainties in the financial markets; pricing pressures, including inflation and rising interest rates, and other competitive factors and levels of capital spending in certain industries; the impact of sev...”
• “Additionally, the Company's competitors may adopt new technologies and technological advancements, such as using artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning to pursue new products and approaches more quickly, successfully and effectively than the Company.”
• “Moreover, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
• “We are in the initial stages of our phased approach in reviewing AI solutions and capabilities and incorporating AI into our business activities and product and service offerings.”
• “As with many innovations, AI presents risks and challenges that could adversely impact our business.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 202410median 4
• Fiscal 202511median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by segment: the split between machinery and instruments is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000832101-26-000003, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.