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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Circuit Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Circuit 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%

“Circuit 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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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