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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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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