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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Quality Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Quality 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%

“Quality 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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