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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Fiber Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Fiber Analyst” 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%

“Fiber Analyst” 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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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