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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Surgical Instruments Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Surgical Instruments 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%

“Surgical Instruments 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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  • SAP software
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Data analysis software
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Rockwell Automation AI
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  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
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  • DeepSeek
  • Minitab
  • IBM Notes
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • R
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Word
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Apache Hive
  • Skype
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Apache Pig
  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Database software
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Microsoft Access
  • Mastercam Design
  • Label inspection systems
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Selenium
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Data entry software
  • Inspection marking systems
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  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
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  • Optical gauges
  • Logic test systems
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Shear testers
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  • Digital multimeters
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Thread gauges
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Depth gauges
  • Pin gauges
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Hipot testers
  • Sorting machines
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Function generators
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Shock testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Micrometers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Pi tapes
  • Personal computers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Accelerometers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Backplane testers
  • Ammeters
  • Resistivity meters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Pulse generators
  • Conductivity meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Continuity testers
  • Impact hammers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Force transducers
  • Beta gauges
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
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  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Plug gauges
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Signal generators
  • Compression testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Eddy current probes
  • Gloss meters
  • Frequency meters
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Frequency counters
  • Fatigue testers
  • Multimeters
  • Viscometers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Tensile testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Forklifts
  • In-circuit testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Power meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Calipers
  • Resistance meters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Hardness testers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Strain gauges
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Height gauges
  • Moisture meters

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