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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Steel Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Steel 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%

“Steel 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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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