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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paint Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Paint 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%

“Paint 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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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