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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tobacco Grader” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Tobacco Grader” 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%

“Tobacco Grader” 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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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 defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

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  • SAP software
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  • Inspection marking systems
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Sorting machines
  • Hardness testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Ammeters
  • Shear testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Force transducers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Plotters
  • Moisture meters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Logic test systems
  • Pulse generators
  • Personal computers
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Digital multimeters
  • Conductivity meters
  • Signal generators
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Hipot testers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Backplane testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Ductility testers
  • Resistance meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Frequency meters
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Micrometers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Calipers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Resistivity meters
  • Viscometers
  • Pi tapes
  • Continuity testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Depth gauges
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Tensile testers
  • Compression testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Impact hammers
  • Frequency counters
  • In-circuit testers
  • Plug gauges
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Beta gauges
  • Optical gauges
  • Fatigue testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Power meters
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Height gauges
  • Accelerometers
  • Overhead cranes
  • Function generators
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Shock testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Forklifts
  • Thread gauges
  • Multimeters
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Hydraulic lifts

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