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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Brick Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Brick Tester” 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%

“Brick Tester” 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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Data analysis software
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  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Microsoft Office software
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  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
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  • Verisurf Metrology
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  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Extensible markup language XML
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  • Computer assisted design software
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  • Laser thickness gauges
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  • Environmental chambers
  • Force transducers
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  • Digital multimeters
  • Signal generators
  • Pulse generators
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  • Overhead cranes
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Micrometers
  • Continuity testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Fatigue testers
  • Hipot testers
  • Power meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Tensile testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Calipers
  • Hardness testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Moisture meters
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Digital resistance thermometers
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  • Forklifts
  • Multimeters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Resistivity meters
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  • Plotters
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  • In-circuit testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Resistance meters
  • Personal computers
  • Measuring microscopes
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  • Height gauges
  • Viscometers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Optical gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Plug gauges
  • Frequency meters

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