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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Biological Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Biological 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%

“Biological 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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