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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Weigh Tank Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Weigh Tank Operator” 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%

“Weigh Tank Operator” 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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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