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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sewer Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sewer Inspector” 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%

“Sewer Inspector” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

Technologies & Software

  • Database software
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Inspection marking systems
  • DeepSeek
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
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  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Apache Pig
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  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Skype
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  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Selenium
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Microsoft Word
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Label inspection systems
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Apache Hive
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Data analysis software
  • Mastercam Design
  • SAP software
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
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  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Data entry software
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • IBM Notes
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
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  • Resistivity meters
  • Viscometers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Fatigue testers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Height gauges
  • Depth gauges
  • Eddy current probes
  • Shock testers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Gloss meters
  • Backplane testers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Power meters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Shear testers
  • Micrometers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Plug gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Frequency meters
  • Optical gauges
  • Calipers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Impact hammers
  • Frequency counters
  • Optical comparators
  • Ductility testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Hardness testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Conductivity meters
  • Thread gauges
  • Continuity testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Pulse generators
  • Hipot testers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Moisture meters
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Function generators
  • Tensile testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Personal computers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Sorting machines
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Compression testers
  • Accelerometers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Ammeters
  • Pi tapes
  • Multimeters
  • Plotters
  • Pin gauges
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Logic test systems
  • Environmental chambers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Strain gauges
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Beta gauges
  • Forklifts
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Resistance meters
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments

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