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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Pinion and Wheel Truer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Pinion and Wheel Truer” 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%

“Pinion and Wheel Truer” 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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