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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Load-Test Mechanic” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Load-Test Mechanic” 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%

“Load-Test Mechanic” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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