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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Cloth Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Cloth Tester” 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 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Cloth Tester” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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  • Face shields
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Steam baths
  • Safety gloves
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Safety showers
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Reflux condensers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Utility clamps
  • Radiation detectors
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Gas drying tubes
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Flame photometers
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Mercury barometers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Triple beam balances
  • Fluorimeters
  • Laboratory balances
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Homogenizers
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Dye lasers
  • Safety glasses
  • Desktop computers
  • Hydrometers
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Drying pistols
  • Velometers
  • Lecture bottles
  • Titrators
  • Polarimeters
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Test tube clamps
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Prisms
  • Ball mills
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Rotameters
  • Pull spring balances
  • Voltmeters
  • Graphing calculators
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Viscosity meters
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Reaction flasks
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Bell jars
  • Molecular stills
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Rheometers
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Pressure gauges
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Water aspirators
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Differential refractometers
  • Single-pan balances
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Photo detectors
  • Infrared lamps
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • McLeod gauges
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Photocells
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Meker burners
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Glass burets
  • Sample crushers
  • Mainframe computers
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Finger pumps
  • Filter pumps
  • U-tube manometers
  • Polarizers
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Ionization gauges
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Torsion balances
  • Coulometers
  • Hot air blowers
  • Automatic burets
  • Multimeters
  • Buchner funnels
  • Nebulizers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Thermocouples
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Monochromators
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Rotary evaporators
  • pH indicators
  • Ruby lasers
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Capillary tubing
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Cooling baths
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Pycnometers
  • Heating mantles
  • Glass tubing
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Agitation tanks
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Comparators
  • Pirani gauges
  • Tension gauges
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Autotitrators
  • Personal computers
  • Distilling condensers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Westphal balances
  • Turbidimeters
  • Gas burners
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Dessicators
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Immersion heaters
  • Metering pumps
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Lasers
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Safety goggles
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Lyophilizers
  • Claisen flasks
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Ammeters

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