Will AI Replace Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers?

Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.

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

Inspect, weigh, and measure products to verify conformance to specifications, using instruments such as micrometers, calipers, magnifiers, or rulers.

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

Record manufacturing information, such as quantities, sizes, or types of goods produced.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Place glass into dies or molds of presses and control presses to form products, such as glassware components or optical blanks.

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

Spray or swab molds with oil solutions to prevent adhesion of glass.

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

Blow tubing into specified shapes to prevent glass from collapsing, using compressed air or own breath, or blow and rotate gathers in molds or on boards to obtain final shapes.

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

Determine types and quantities of glass required to fabricate products.

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

Set up and adjust machine press stroke lengths and pressures and regulate oven temperatures, according to glass types to be processed.

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

Shape, bend, or join sections of glass, using paddles, pressing and flattening hand tools, or cork.

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

Design and create glass objects, using blowpipes and artisans' hand tools and equipment.

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

Operate and maintain finishing machines to grind, drill, sand, bevel, decorate, wash, or polish glass or glass products.

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

Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing.

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

Develop sketches of glass products into blueprint specifications, applying knowledge of glass technology and glass blowing.

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

Superimpose bent tubing on asbestos patterns to ensure accuracy.

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

Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels.

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

Place rubber hoses on ends of tubing and charge tubing with gas.

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