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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Barrel Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Barrel Inspector” 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%

“Barrel Inspector” 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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
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  • Minitab
  • Microsoft Office software
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  • FileMaker Pro
  • Database software
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  • Extensible markup language XML
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  • Data analysis software
  • Computer assisted design software
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  • Verisurf Metrology
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
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  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • SAP software
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Selenium
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Multimeters
  • Pulse generators
  • Viscometers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Shock testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Strain gauges
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Ductility testers
  • Plug gauges
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Backplane testers
  • Sorting machines
  • Color spectrometers
  • Plotters
  • Thread gauges
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Digital multimeters
  • Optical gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Frequency counters
  • Shear testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Power meters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Ammeters
  • Pin gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Overhead cranes
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Optical comparators
  • Fatigue testers
  • Compression testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Height gauges
  • Impact hammers
  • Beta gauges
  • Hipot testers
  • Logic test systems
  • Frequency meters
  • Accelerometers
  • Hardness testers
  • Tensile testers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Micrometers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Moisture meters
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Forklifts
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Continuity testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Signal generators
  • Environmental chambers
  • Personal computers
  • Depth gauges
  • Resistance meters
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Function generators
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Resistivity meters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Calipers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage

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