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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tester Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Tester Operator” 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 Operator” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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  • Database software
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  • Data entry software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
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  • FileMaker Pro
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
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  • Selenium
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  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Design of experiments DOE software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Microsoft Access
  • Data analysis software
  • Structured query language SQL
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  • R
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  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Minitab
  • Mastercam Design
  • SAP software
  • Microsoft Office software
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  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
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  • Pi tapes
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Frequency meters
  • Optical gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Backplane testers
  • Shock testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Signal generators
  • Beta gauges
  • Color spectrometers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Plotters
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Frequency counters
  • Environmental chambers
  • Moisture meters
  • Calipers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Forklifts
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Continuity testers
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Pulse generators
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Height gauges
  • Accelerometers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Digital multimeters
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Impact hammers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • In-circuit testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Depth gauges
  • Sorting machines
  • Resistance meters
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Tensile testers
  • Resistivity meters
  • Shear testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Logic test systems
  • Personal computers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Hardness testers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Power meters
  • Compression testers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Ductility testers
  • Force transducers
  • Micrometers
  • Hipot testers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Optical comparators
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Viscometers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Thread gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Plug gauges
  • Multimeters

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