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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Roving Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Roving Inspector” 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%

“Roving Inspector” 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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  • Atlassian JIRA
  • R
  • Data analysis software
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Apache Pig
  • Minitab
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Apache Hive
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Mastercam Design
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Gemini (Google)
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • IBM Notes
  • Label inspection systems
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • SAP software
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Database software
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Word
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • FileMaker Pro
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • DeepSeek
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Sight Machine AI
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Skype
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Beta gauges
  • Pin gauges
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Strain gauges
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Multimeters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Micrometers
  • Depth gauges
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Moisture meters
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Tensile testers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Shear testers
  • Plotters
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Color spectrometers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Resistance meters
  • Optical comparators
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Personal computers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Backplane testers
  • Accelerometers
  • Sorting machines
  • Impact hammers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Force transducers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Gloss meters
  • Function generators
  • Power meters
  • Signal generators
  • Hipot testers
  • Shock testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Plug gauges
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Logic test systems
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Pulse generators
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Viscometers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Continuity testers
  • Hardness testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Calipers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Thread gauges
  • Frequency meters
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Eddy current probes
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Compression testers
  • Ductility testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Forklifts
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Ammeters
  • Height gauges
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Optical gauges

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