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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Spoilage Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Spoilage Worker” 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%

“Spoilage Worker” 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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  • Color spectrometers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Height gauges
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Pi tapes
  • Viscometers
  • Frequency meters
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Plug gauges
  • Micrometers
  • Thread gauges
  • Digital multimeters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Depth gauges
  • Resistance meters
  • Logic test systems
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  • Plotters
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  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
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  • Hardness testers
  • In-circuit testers
  • Multimeters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Shear testers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Hipot testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Pulse generators
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Continuity testers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Overhead cranes
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Signal generators
  • Calipers
  • Ductility testers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Power meters
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Personal computers
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  • Forklifts
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  • Accelerometers
  • Gloss meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Shock testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Optical gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Frequency counters
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Sorting machines
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Impact hammers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
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