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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color 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%

“Color 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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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