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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Towel Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Towel Sorter” 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%

“Towel Sorter” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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