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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Outboard Motor Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Outboard Motor 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%

“Outboard Motor 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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