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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Plate Gauger” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Plate Gauger” 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%

“Plate Gauger” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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