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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sound Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Sound Tester” 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%

“Sound Tester” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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