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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Block Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Block Sorter” 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%

“Block Sorter” 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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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