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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Estimator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Estimator” 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%

“Estimator” 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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  • Mastercam Design
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  • Data entry software
  • Microsoft Visio
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • SAP software
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Minitab
  • Selenium
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • DeepSeek
  • Shock testers
  • Compression testers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Fatigue testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Resistance meters
  • Tensile testers
  • Depth gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Optical comparators
  • Hipot testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Pi tapes
  • Sorting machines
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Power meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Strain gauges
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Plotters
  • Height gauges
  • Conductivity meters
  • Impact hammers
  • Continuity testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Accelerometers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Ductility testers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Digital multimeters
  • Frequency counters
  • Color spectrometers
  • Plug gauges
  • Optical gauges
  • Bubble leak testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Force transducers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Moisture meters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Gloss meters
  • Viscometers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Resistivity meters
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Pulse generators
  • Function generators
  • Forklifts
  • Hardness testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Shear testers
  • Thread gauges
  • Beta gauges
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Personal computers
  • Multimeters
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Overhead cranes
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Signal generators
  • Calipers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Logic test systems
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Frequency meters
  • Pin gauges
  • Backplane testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Micrometers
  • Metallurgical microscopes

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