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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Machine Shop 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 Shop 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 Shop 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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • R
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  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Microsoft SharePoint
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  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Data entry software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Data analysis software
  • Apache Hive
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
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  • SAP software
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  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Calipers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Accelerometers
  • Continuity testers
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Pin gauges
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Micrometers
  • Forklifts
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Viscometers
  • Moisture meters
  • Impact hammers
  • Plotters
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Signal generators
  • Fatigue testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Compression testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Optical gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Pi tapes
  • Plug gauges
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Ammeters
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Function generators
  • Environmental chambers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Thread gauges
  • Beta gauges
  • In-circuit testers
  • Sorting machines
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Color spectrometers
  • Height gauges
  • Strain gauges
  • Power meters
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Digital multimeters
  • Logic test systems
  • Optical comparators
  • Backplane testers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Resistance meters
  • Depth gauges
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Personal computers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Shock testers
  • Shear testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Hardness testers
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Ductility testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Tensile testers
  • Hipot testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Gloss meters
  • Force transducers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Multimeters

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