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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Tube Sorter” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Tube 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%

“Tube 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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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