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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

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

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

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

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

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

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

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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