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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Coal Sampler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Coal Sampler” 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 Sampler” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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