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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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