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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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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