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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sampler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sampler” 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%

“Sampler” 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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