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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Switchboard Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Switchboard 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%

“Switchboard 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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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