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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cigarette Catcher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Cigarette Catcher” 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%

“Cigarette Catcher” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

Technologies & Software

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

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