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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “QC Technician (Quality Control Technician)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“QC Technician (Quality Control Technician)” 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%

“QC Technician (Quality Control Technician)” 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • 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 defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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