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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Scaler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Scaler” 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%

“Scaler” 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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