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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Bowling Ball Weigher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Bowling Ball Weigher” 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%

“Bowling Ball Weigher” 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Resistance meters
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Shock testers
  • Plotters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Logic test systems
  • Signal generators
  • Power meters
  • Shear testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Sorting machines
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Plug gauges
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Frequency meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Compression testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Resistivity meters
  • Micrometers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Height gauges
  • Fatigue testers
  • Ductility testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Moisture meters
  • Personal computers
  • Frequency counters
  • Multimeters
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Function generators
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Tensile testers
  • Beta gauges
  • Thread gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Gloss meters
  • Hipot testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Accelerometers
  • Forklifts
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Conductivity meters
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Hardness testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Impact hammers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Digital multimeters
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Pin gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Depth gauges
  • Continuity testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Pulse generators
  • Ammeters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Calipers
  • Viscometers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Environmental chambers
  • Backplane testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments

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