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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Maker Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Maker Formulator” 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%

“Color Maker Formulator” 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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