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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paper Counter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Paper Counter” 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%

“Paper Counter” 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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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