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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Wheel Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Wheel 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%

“Wheel 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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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