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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Steel Sampler” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Steel Sampler” 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 Sampler” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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  • Multimeters
  • Power meters
  • Conductivity meters
  • Pin gauges
  • Force transducers
  • Function generators
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Calipers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Accelerometers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Gloss meters
  • Micrometers
  • Plotters
  • Pi tapes
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  • Impact toughness testers
  • Logic test systems
  • Optical gauges
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Frequency meters
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Backplane testers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Ductility testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Impact hammers
  • Depth gauges
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Viscometers
  • Plug gauges
  • Hardness testers
  • Moisture meters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Thread gauges
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Resistivity meters
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Shock testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
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  • Ammeters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Shear testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Frequency counters
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Height gauges
  • Pulse generators
  • Forklifts
  • Resistance meters
  • Tensile testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
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  • Digital multimeters
  • Color spectrometers
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