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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Drilling Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Drilling 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%

“Drilling 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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