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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sorting Machine Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sorting Machine Operator” 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%

“Sorting Machine Operator” 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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