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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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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