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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chip Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Chip 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%

“Chip 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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • Plotters
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  • Conductivity meters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Accelerometers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Force transducers
  • Viscometers
  • Height gauges
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Optical comparators
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Thread gauges
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  • Function generators
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  • Calipers
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  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Optical gauges
  • Power meters
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  • Measuring microscopes
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Beta gauges
  • Frequency counters
  • Pi tapes
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Vibration and shaker systems
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  • Pin gauges
  • Frequency meters
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  • Logic test systems
  • Fatigue testers
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  • Strain gauges
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  • Ammeters
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