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O*NET detailed work activityCalculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production
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12 jobs12 tasks
AI can lay out options, timelines and checklists to react to. Fitting it to your people, budget and situation is your call.
Part of Determine resource needs of projects or operations, under the O*NET work activity group Making Decisions and Solving Problems. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (7 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 3 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Calculate machine speed and feed ratios and the size and position of cuts.
- Draw smelted metal samples from furnaces or kettles for analysis, and calculate types and amounts of materials needed to ensure that materials meet specifications.
- Calculate load estimates or equipment requirements to determine required control settings.
- Calculate draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequences and specified dimensions and tempers.
- Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.
- Calculate amounts of materials to be loaded into furnaces, adjusting amounts as necessary for specific conditions.
- Determine packaging requirements.
- Calculate etching time based on thickness of material to be removed from wafers or crystals.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix refined feedstock used in biofuels production.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix biomass feedstock for power generation.
- Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.
- Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics.