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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Golf Ball Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Golf Ball 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%

“Golf Ball 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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