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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Skin Grader” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Skin Grader” 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%

“Skin Grader” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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