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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Hop Weigher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Hop Weigher” 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%

“Hop Weigher” 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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