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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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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