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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Tester” 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%

“Tester” 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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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