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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Timer” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Timer” 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%

“Timer” 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Microsoft Office software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Data analysis software
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • SAP software
  • Apache Hive
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Database software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Microsoft Excel
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  • Llama (Meta)
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  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Rockwell Automation AI
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  • Data entry software
  • Computer-aided inspection software
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  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
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  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Power meters
  • Color spectrometers
  • Function generators
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Shear testers
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Plug gauges
  • Moisture meters
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Plotters
  • Hardness testers
  • Ductility testers
  • Beta gauges
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Multimeters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Optical gauges
  • Signal generators
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Environmental chambers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Logic test systems
  • Pulse generators
  • Shock testers
  • Viscometers
  • Personal computers
  • Pin gauges
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Gloss meters
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Force transducers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Compression testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Resistivity meters
  • Pi tapes
  • Ammeters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Tensile testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Hipot testers
  • Backplane testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Digital multimeters
  • Impact hammers
  • Resistance meters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Thread gauges
  • Conductivity meters
  • Frequency counters
  • Sorting machines
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Micrometers
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Forklifts
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Depth gauges
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Fatigue testers
  • Accelerometers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Height gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Calipers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • In-circuit testers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Continuity testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Strain gauges

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