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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Mat Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Mat Tester” 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%

“Mat Tester” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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