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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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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