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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Coal Grader” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Coal Grader” 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%

“Coal Grader” 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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