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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Meter Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Meter 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%

“Meter 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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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