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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Scrap Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Scrap Sorter” 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%

“Scrap Sorter” 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

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

  • 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.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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