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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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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