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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sample Selector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sample Selector” 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 Selector” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

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