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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Shank Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Shank 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%

“Shank 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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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  • Measuring microscopes
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  • Plug gauges
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  • Height gauges
  • Calipers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Environmental chambers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Micrometers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Hipot testers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Resistivity meters
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Accelerometers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
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  • Multimeters
  • Impact hammers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Ammeters
  • Depth gauges
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Frequency counters
  • Viscometers
  • Shear testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Logic test systems
  • Fatigue testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Force transducers
  • Thread gauges
  • Color spectrometers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Resistance meters
  • Pin gauges
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
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  • Optical gauges

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