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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Materials Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Materials 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%

“Materials 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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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  • Database software
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Microsoft Access
  • Mastercam Design
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Apache Pig
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • IBM Notes
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Microsoft Word
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Skype
  • Inspection marking systems
  • DeepSeek
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Minitab
  • Data entry software
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  • Gemini (Google)
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Label inspection systems
  • Data analysis software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • R
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Eddy current probes
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Environmental chambers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Optical gauges
  • Calipers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Color spectrometers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Tensile testers
  • Multimeters
  • Resistance meters
  • Signal generators
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Ammeters
  • Pin gauges
  • Height gauges
  • Micrometers
  • Forklifts
  • Digital multimeters
  • Power meters
  • Pi tapes
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Conductivity meters
  • Hardness testers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Backplane testers
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Fatigue testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Logic test systems
  • Depth gauges
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Force transducers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Accelerometers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Function generators
  • Gloss meters
  • Viscometers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Strain gauges
  • Shock testers
  • Shear testers
  • Moisture meters
  • Frequency meters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Plug gauges
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Thread gauges
  • Continuity testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hipot testers
  • Personal computers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Impact hammers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Pulse generators
  • Ductility testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Plotters
  • Beta gauges
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Compression testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Sorting machines
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • In-circuit testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Verisurf Master3DGage

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