Will AI Replace Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers?

Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.

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

Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.

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

Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.

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

Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.

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

Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.

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

Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.

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

Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.

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

Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.

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

Test newly installed equipment to ensure that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for set amounts of time.

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

Participate in additional training to keep skills up to date.

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

Operate elevators to determine power demands, and test power consumption to detect overload factors.

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

Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.

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

Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.

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

Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.

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

Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.

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

Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.

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