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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Calibrator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Calibrator” 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%

“Calibrator” 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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