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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Pick Up Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Pick Up Operator” 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%

“Pick Up Operator” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • Data analysis software
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • R
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • SAP software
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Microsoft Word
  • Mastercam Design
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • IBM Notes
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Apache Hive
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Apache Pig
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • DeepSeek
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Database software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Minitab
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Selenium
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • In-circuit testers
  • Depth gauges
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Fatigue testers
  • Calipers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Signal generators
  • Backplane testers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Moisture meters
  • Accelerometers
  • Frequency counters
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Eddy current probes
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Multimeters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Viscometers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Function generators
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Logic test systems
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Pulse generators
  • Hipot testers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Impact hammers
  • Beta gauges
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Continuity testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Personal computers
  • Sorting machines
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Ammeters
  • Thread gauges
  • Shear testers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Resistance meters
  • Tensile testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Compression testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Ductility testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Plug gauges
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Resistivity meters
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Forklifts
  • Hardness testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Pin gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Optical comparators
  • Pi tapes
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Micrometers
  • Plotters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Power meters
  • Shock testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Height gauges

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