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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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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