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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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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  • IBM Notes
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Sight Machine AI
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Microsoft Access
  • Minitab
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Apache Pig
  • DeepSeek
  • SAP software
  • Grok (xAI)
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  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Selenium
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
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  • Data entry software
  • Siemens Industrial AI
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  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
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  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Frequency meters
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
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  • Gloss meters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Compression testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
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  • Continuity testers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Digital multimeters
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Function generators
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Beta gauges
  • In-circuit testers
  • Shear testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Logic test systems
  • Conductivity meters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Micrometers
  • Backplane testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Ductility testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Thread gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Power meters
  • Height gauges
  • Sorting machines
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Tensile testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Pin gauges
  • Viscometers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Color spectrometers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Multimeters
  • Accelerometers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Shock testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Pi tapes
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Impact hammers
  • Personal computers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Fatigue testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Plotters
  • Plug gauges
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Strain gauges
  • Forklifts
  • Depth gauges
  • Environmental chambers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Force transducers
  • Pulse generators
  • Ammeters
  • Moisture meters
  • Resistivity meters
  • Hipot testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Signal generators
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Calipers

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