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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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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