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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Inspection Clerk” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Inspection Clerk” 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%

“Inspection Clerk” 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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