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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Patcher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Patcher” 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%

“Patcher” 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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