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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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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