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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Viscosity Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Viscosity Worker” 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%

“Viscosity Worker” 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.

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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