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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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