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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Returned Goods Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Returned Goods Sorter” 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%

“Returned Goods Sorter” 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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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