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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Textile Colorist Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Textile Colorist Formulator” 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%

“Textile Colorist Formulator” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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