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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Hosiery Pairer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Hosiery Pairer” 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%

“Hosiery Pairer” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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