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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cigarette Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Cigarette 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%

“Cigarette 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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