Will AI Replace Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders?

Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.

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

Press control buttons to activate machinery and equipment.

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

Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.

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

Monitor machine operations and observe lights and gauges to detect malfunctions.

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

Clear jams, and remove defective or substandard materials or products.

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

Notify supervisors when extruded filaments fail to meet standards.

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

Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Review work orders, specifications, or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines.

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

Turn controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure, creating vacuums, and adjusting coolant flow.

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

Clean dies, arbors, compression chambers, and molds, using swabs, sponges, or air hoses.

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

Synchronize speeds of sections of machines when producing products involving several steps or processes.

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

Move materials, supplies, components, and finished products between storage and work areas, using work aids such as racks, hoists, and handtrucks.

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

Activate machines to shape or form products, such as candy bars, light bulbs, balloons, or insulation panels.

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

Select and install machine components, such as dies, molds, and cutters, according to specifications, using hand tools and measuring devices.

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

Send product samples to laboratories for analysis.

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

Couple air and gas lines to machines to maintain plasticity of material and to regulate solidification of final products.

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

Pour, scoop, or dump specified ingredients, metal assemblies, or mixtures into sections of machine prior to starting machines.

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

Measure, mix, cut, shape, soften, and join materials and ingredients, such as powder, cornmeal, or rubber to prepare them for machine processing.

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

Remove materials or products from molds or from extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines, and stack or store them for additional processing.

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

Feed products into machines by hand or conveyor.

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

Measure arbors and dies to verify sizes specified on work tickets.

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

Complete work tickets, and place them with products.

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

Disassemble equipment to repair it or to replace parts, such as nozzles, punches, and filters.

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

Remove molds, mold components, and feeder tubes from machinery after production is complete.

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

Swab molds with solutions to prevent products from sticking.

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

Install, align, and adjust neck rings, press plungers, and feeder tubes.

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