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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sorter” 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%

“Sorter” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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