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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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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