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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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