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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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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