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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cartridge Gauger” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Cartridge Gauger” 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%

“Cartridge Gauger” 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 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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