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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Rejector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Rejector” 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%

“Rejector” 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 or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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