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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cold Working Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Cold Working 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%

“Cold Working 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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