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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Gear Sorting and Inspecting Machine Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Gear Sorting and Inspecting Machine Operator” 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%

“Gear Sorting and Inspecting Machine Operator” 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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