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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Weight Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Weight Tester” 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%

“Weight Tester” 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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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