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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Button Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Button 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%

“Button 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

  • 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 defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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