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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Wood Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Wood 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%

“Wood 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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