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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Laboratory Tester” 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%

“Laboratory Tester” 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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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