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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Detector Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Detector Operator” 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%

“Detector Operator” 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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