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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Machine Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Machine Inspector” 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%

“Machine Inspector” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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