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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Engine Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Engine 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%

“Engine 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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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