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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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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