Will AI Replace Conveyor Operators and Tenders?

Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.

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Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Stop equipment or machinery and clear jams, using poles, bars, and hand tools, or remove damaged materials from conveyors.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Distribute materials, supplies, and equipment to work stations, using lifts and trucks.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Repair or replace equipment components or parts such as blades, rolls, and pumps.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Move, assemble, and connect hoses or nozzles to material hoppers, storage tanks, conveyor sections or chutes, and pumps.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Thread strapping through strapping tools and secure battens with strapping to form protective pallets around extrusions.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Contact workers in work stations or other departments to request movement of materials, products, or machinery, or to notify them of incoming shipments and their estimated delivery times.

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Join sections of conveyor frames at temporary working areas, and connect power units.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.