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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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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