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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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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