Will AI Replace Patternmakers, Wood?

Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.

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

Fit, fasten, and assemble wood parts together to form patterns, models, or sections, using glue, nails, dowels, bolts, and screws.

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

Lay out patterns on wood stock and draw outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full-scale mock-ups of products, based on blueprint specifications and sketches, and using marking and measuring devices.

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

Trim, smooth, and shape surfaces, and plane, shave, file, scrape, and sand models to attain specified shapes, using hand tools.

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

Divide patterns into sections according to shapes of castings to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.

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

Verify dimensions of completed patterns, using templates, straightedges, calipers, or protractors.

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

Correct patterns to compensate for defects in castings.

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

Set up, operate, and adjust a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and lathes to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.

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

Finish completed products or models with shellac, lacquer, wax, or paint.

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

Estimate costs for patternmaking jobs.

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

Mark identifying information such as colors or codes on patterns, parts, and templates to indicate assembly methods.

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

Repair broken or damaged patterns.

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

Maintain pattern records for reference.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Glue fillets along interior angles of patterns.

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

Construct wooden models, templates, full scale mock-ups, jigs, or molds for shaping parts of products.

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

Compute dimensions, areas, volumes, and weights.

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

Select lumber to be used for patterns.

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

Collect and store patterns and lumber.

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

Inventory equipment and supplies, ordering parts and tools as necessary.

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

Issue patterns to designated machine operators.

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