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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Finishing Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Finishing 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%

“Finishing 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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