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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Potato Chip Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Potato Chip Sorter” 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%

“Potato Chip Sorter” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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