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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Rayon Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Rayon 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%

“Rayon 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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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