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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Drop Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Drop Tester” 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%

“Drop Tester” 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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

Technologies & Software

  • Label inspection systems
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Inspection marking systems
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Data analysis software
  • Apache Pig
  • R
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Apache Hive
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • IBM Notes
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Word
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Mastercam Design
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Data entry software
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Skype
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Selenium
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Database software
  • Minitab
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Microsoft Access
  • Grok (xAI)
  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • SAP software
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Optical comparators
  • Backplane testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Force transducers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hardness testers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Frequency counters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Gloss meters
  • Resistance meters
  • Conductivity meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Thread gauges
  • Function generators
  • Fatigue testers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Frequency meters
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Digital multimeters
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Power meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Compression testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Signal generators
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Hipot testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Optical gauges
  • Shock testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Viscometers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Continuity testers
  • Micrometers
  • Pin gauges
  • Ductility testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Shear testers
  • Forklifts
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Logic test systems
  • Tensile testers
  • Plotters
  • Moisture meters
  • Impact hammers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Beta gauges
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Sorting machines
  • Accelerometers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Plug gauges
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Height gauges
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Ammeters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • In-circuit testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Personal computers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Multimeters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Calipers
  • Pulse generators
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Depth gauges

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