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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sample Maker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sample Maker” 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%

“Sample Maker” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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