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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Product Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Product Tester” 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%

“Product Tester” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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