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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Dry 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%

“Dry 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%

“Dry 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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