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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tool Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Tool Inspector” 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%

“Tool Inspector” 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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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  • SAP software
  • Database software
  • Data entry software
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Data analysis software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Mastercam Design
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Apache Pig
  • Selenium
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  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Minitab
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  • Microsoft Office software
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  • Design of experiments DOE software
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  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
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  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Color spectrometers
  • Frequency counters
  • Shear testers
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Viscometers
  • Impact hammers
  • Optical gauges
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Pi tapes
  • Logic test systems
  • Gloss meters
  • Strain gauges
  • Micrometers
  • Pin gauges
  • Backplane testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Depth gauges
  • Digital resistance meters
  • In-circuit testers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Sorting machines
  • Force transducers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Pulse generators
  • Shock testers
  • Accelerometers
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Hipot testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Resistivity meters
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Function generators
  • Resistance meters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Hardness testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Forklifts
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Tensile testers
  • Thread gauges
  • Beta gauges
  • Ammeters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Multimeters
  • Ductility testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Signal generators
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Moisture meters
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Overhead cranes
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Calipers
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Digital multimeters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Plug gauges
  • Personal computers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Power meters
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Conductivity meters
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Compression testers
  • Plotters
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Continuity testers
  • Height gauges
  • Fatigue testers
  • Impact toughness testers

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