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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Soldering Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Soldering 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%

“Soldering 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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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