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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Swatch Checker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Swatch Checker” 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%

“Swatch Checker” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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  • Data analysis software
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  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Minitab
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Microsoft Access
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Mastercam Design
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Apache Hive
  • Claude (Anthropic)
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  • SAP software
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  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
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  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Database software
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  • Data entry software
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  • Skype
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  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Conductivity meters
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Shear testers
  • Signal generators
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Forklifts
  • Optical gauges
  • Resistivity meters
  • Accelerometers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Pin gauges
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Moisture meters
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Sorting machines
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Resistance meters
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Impact hammers
  • Ammeters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Compression testers
  • Plotters
  • Strain gauges
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Color spectrometers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Continuity testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • In-circuit testers
  • Pulse generators
  • Function generators
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Digital multimeters
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Thread gauges
  • Logic test systems
  • Frequency meters
  • Shock testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Viscometers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Micrometers
  • Tensile testers
  • Hardness testers
  • Force transducers
  • Calipers
  • Backplane testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Pi tapes
  • Ductility testers
  • Beta gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Personal computers
  • Hipot testers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Plug gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Power meters
  • Frequency counters
  • Depth gauges
  • Environmental chambers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Gloss meters
  • Multimeters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Height gauges
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments

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