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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Gauger” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Gauger” 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%

“Gauger” 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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