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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Shipping Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Shipping 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%

“Shipping 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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  • Frequency counters
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  • Multimeters
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  • Industrial bench scales
  • Signal generators
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  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Optical gauges
  • Frequency meters
  • Depth gauges
  • Tensile testers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Function generators
  • Thread gauges
  • Environmental chambers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Overhead cranes
  • Fatigue testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Calipers
  • Personal computers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Strain gauges
  • Resistivity meters
  • Moisture meters
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Force transducers
  • Digital multimeters
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Color spectrometers
  • Power meters
  • Height gauges
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Micrometers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Pin gauges
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Accelerometers
  • Shock testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Viscometers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Resistance meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Impact hammers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
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  • Holographic interferometers
  • Gloss meters
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
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