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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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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