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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Optical Glass Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Optical Glass 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%

“Optical Glass 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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Rockwell Automation AI
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  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Data entry software
  • Selenium
  • Data analysis software
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Apache Pig
  • Computer assisted design software
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  • Microsoft Office software
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  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • SAP software
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  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Microsoft Word
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
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  • R
  • Label inspection systems
  • Environmental chambers
  • Plotters
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Continuity testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Personal computers
  • Optical gauges
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Hipot testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Backplane testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Plug gauges
  • Hardness testers
  • Shear testers
  • Impact hammers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Multimeters
  • Tensile testers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Calipers
  • Beta gauges
  • Height gauges
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Ductility testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Signal generators
  • Gloss meters
  • Pi tapes
  • Function generators
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Force transducers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Frequency counters
  • In-circuit testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Compression testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Depth gauges
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Sorting machines
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Shock testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Micrometers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Digital multimeters
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Viscometers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Resistance meters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Color spectrometers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Fatigue testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Moisture meters
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Optical comparators
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Thread gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Pulse generators
  • Forklifts
  • Resistivity meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Accelerometers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Logic test systems
  • Power meters

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