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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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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