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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Type Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Type 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%

“Type 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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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