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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Buffing Wheel Raker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Buffing Wheel Raker” 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%

“Buffing Wheel Raker” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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