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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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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  • Bourdon gauges
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Lasers
  • Cooling baths
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Polarimeters
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  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Safety gloves
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Single-pan balances
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Gas burners
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Comparators
  • Viscosity meters
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Thermocouples
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Face shields
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Immersion heaters
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Steam baths
  • Flame photometers
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Photo detectors
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Drying pistols
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Rotameters
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Pressure gauges
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Ball mills
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Dessicators
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Distilling condensers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Sample crushers
  • Personal computers
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Photocells
  • Ionization gauges
  • Dye lasers
  • Finger pumps
  • Radiation detectors
  • Filter pumps
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Water aspirators
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Lecture bottles
  • Prisms
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
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  • McLeod gauges
  • Laboratory flasks
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  • Pull spring balances
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Laboratory blenders
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Infrared lamps
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Metering pumps
  • Ruby lasers
  • Pycnometers
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Multimeters
  • Reflux condensers
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Bell jars
  • Ammeters
  • Buchner funnels
  • Safety glasses
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  • Polarizers
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  • Rheometers
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  • Laboratory tongs
  • Differential refractometers
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
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  • Meker burners
  • Optical beamsplitting devices

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