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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Taster” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Taster” 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%

“Taster” 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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