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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “X-Ray Inspector” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“X-Ray 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%

“X-Ray 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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