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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Masonry Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Masonry 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%

“Masonry 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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