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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Dye Expert” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Dye Expert” 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%

“Dye Expert” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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  • Face shields
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Photomultiplier tubes
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  • Deuterium lamps
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
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  • Utility clamps
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Autotitrators
  • Westphal balances
  • Single-pan balances
  • Reflux condensers
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Voltmeters
  • Canister gas masks
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Finger pumps
  • Metering pumps
  • U-tube manometers
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Claisen flasks
  • Glass burets
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Prisms
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Pycnometers
  • Fire extinguishers
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  • Gas leak detectors
  • Evaporating dishes
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  • Lyophilizers
  • Mainframe computers
  • Hirsch funnels
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  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Molecular stills
  • Ionization gauges
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Turbidimeters
  • Safety showers
  • Thermocouples
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Ruby lasers
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Infrared lamps
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Mercury barometers
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  • Dye lasers
  • Drying pistols
  • Digital handheld thermometers
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  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Rheometers
  • Filter pumps
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Rotameters
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Viscosity meters
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Water aspirators
  • Radiation detectors
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Safety gloves
  • Pull spring balances
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Torsion balances
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Titrators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Comparators
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Agitation tanks
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Electronic toploading balances
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  • Buchner funnels
  • Ball mills
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Coulometers
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Nebulizers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Pressure gauges
  • Photo detectors
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  • Lecture bottles
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  • Capillary tubing
  • Polarizers
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  • Tension gauges
  • Differential refractometers
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Safety glasses
  • Hydrometers
  • Fluorimeters
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  • Steam baths
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
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  • Ammeters
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Spectrophotometers
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