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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Quality Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Quality 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%

“Quality 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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