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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Production Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Production 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%

“Production 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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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