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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Collator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Collator” 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%

“Collator” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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