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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Welding Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Welding 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%

“Welding 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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  • Selenium
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  • Microsoft SharePoint
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  • Inspection marking systems
  • R
  • Computer-aided inspection software
  • Data entry software
  • Label inspection systems
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • IBM Notes
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Apache Hive
  • Microsoft Access
  • Skype
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Computer assisted design software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Sight Machine AI
  • Minitab
  • Cybermetrics GAGETrak
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Cognex Vision AI
  • Coordinate measuring machine software
  • Data analysis software
  • DeepSeek
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
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  • Gemini (Google)
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  • Mastercam Design
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
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  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Database software
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • ABB AI Robotics
  • Height gauges
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Strain gauges
  • Resistivity meters
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Optical gauges
  • Overhead cranes
  • Signal generators
  • Ductility testers
  • Shear testers
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Personal computers
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Logic test systems
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Forklifts
  • Fatigue testers
  • Pin gauges
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Impact hammers
  • Compression testers
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Frequency meters
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Backplane testers
  • Force transducers
  • Accelerometers
  • Ammeters
  • Digital multimeters
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Beta gauges
  • Multimeters
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Pi tapes
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Pulse generators
  • Continuity testers
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Moisture meters
  • Function generators
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Shock testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Calipers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Environmental chambers
  • Resistance meters
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Plotters
  • Thread gauges
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Conductivity meters
  • Frequency counters
  • In-circuit testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Hipot testers
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Gloss meters
  • Eddy current probes
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Color spectrometers
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Sorting machines
  • Depth gauges
  • Tensile testers
  • Optical comparators
  • Power meters
  • Micrometers
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Viscometers
  • Hardness testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Plug gauges

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