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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Abrasive Grader” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Abrasive Grader” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 56% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

54%

“Abrasive Grader” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 54% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,670
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.84
Available Jobs (US) 591,180
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers #51-9061
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.

  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.

  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.

  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.

  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.

  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.

  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.

  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.

  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.

  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.

  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.

  • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.

  • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.

  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.

  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.

  • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.

  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.

  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

Technologies & Software

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  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Data entry software
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Selenium
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Label inspection systems
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Skype
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Database software
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Data analysis software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Mastercam Design
  • Microsoft Access
  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Minitab
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Apache Pig
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • IBM Notes
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • R
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Apache Hive
  • SAP software
  • Structured query language SQL
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Fatigue testers
  • Hipot testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Impact hammers
  • Plotters
  • Frequency counters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Thread gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Backplane testers
  • Resistance meters
  • Function generators
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Logic test systems
  • Resistivity meters
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Continuity testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Accelerometers
  • Height gauges
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Forklifts
  • Eddy current probes
  • Viscometers
  • Ductility testers
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • In-circuit testers
  • Compression testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hardness testers
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Pin gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Personal computers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Moisture meters
  • Signal generators
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Shock testers
  • Depth gauges
  • Micrometers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Tensile testers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Calipers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Beta gauges
  • Pi tapes
  • Frequency meters
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Power meters
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Optical gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Multimeters
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Gloss meters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Pulse generators
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Ammeters
  • Sorting machines
  • Strain gauges
  • Plug gauges
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Shear testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Vibration and shaker systems

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