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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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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