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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Rag Picker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Rag Picker” 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%

“Rag Picker” 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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