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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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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