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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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  • Microsoft Access
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  • IBM Lotus Notes
  • Structured query language SQL
  • Siemens Industrial AI
  • SAP software
  • Rockwell Automation AI
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Mastercam computer-aided design and manufacturing software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
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  • Statistical process control SPC data collection devices
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  • Tolerance analysis software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
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  • Grok (xAI)
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  • Database software
  • Gemini (Google)
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Verisurf Metrology
  • Inspection marking systems
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Wilcox Associates PC-DMIS Inspection Planner
  • IBM Notes
  • FileMaker Pro
  • DeepSeek
  • Computer assisted design software
  • R
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Label inspection systems
  • Apache Hive
  • Height gauges
  • Hipot testers
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Force transducers
  • Optical gauges
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Personal computers
  • Ammeters
  • Accelerometers
  • Direct current DC power testers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Eddy current probes
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Environmental chambers
  • Sorting machines
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Depth gauges
  • Tensile testers
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Impact hammers
  • Moisture meters
  • Backplane testers
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Overhead cranes
  • Pulse generators
  • Shear testers
  • Micrometers
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Viscometers
  • Pi tapes
  • Ductility testers
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Power meters
  • Resistance meters
  • Optical comparators
  • Hardness testers
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Beta gauges
  • Continuity testers
  • Creep and stress relaxation testers
  • Plotters
  • Compression testers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Resistivity meters
  • Calipers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Shock testers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Printed circuit board PCB testers
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Digital multimeters
  • In-circuit testers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Frequency meters
  • Plug gauges
  • Thread gauges
  • Signal generators
  • Bit error rate testers BERT
  • Magnetic particle flaw detectors
  • Pin gauges
  • Logic test systems
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Multimeters
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Gloss meters
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Frequency counters
  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Forklifts
  • Function generators
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Color spectrometers
  • Fatigue testers
  • Strain gauges
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Industrial bench scales

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