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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Coal Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Coal Inspector” 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 Inspector” 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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