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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Matcher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Matcher” 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 Matcher” 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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

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