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O*NET detailed work activityCalibrate equipment to specifications
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs12 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Calibrate and verify accuracy of light meters, shutter diaphragm operation, or lens carriers, using timing instruments.
- Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
- Calibrate testing instruments and installed or repaired equipment to prescribed specifications.
- Align, adjust, or calibrate equipment according to specifications.
- Match light fixture settings, such as brightness and color, to lighting design plans.
- Calibrate and align components, using scales, gauges, and other measuring instruments.
- Calibrate instrumentation, such as meters, gauges, and regulators, for pressure, temperature, flow, and level.
- Calibrate testing instruments.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.
- Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
- Maintain, calibrate, or repair plant instrumentation, control, and electronic devices in geothermal plants.
- Perform quality assurance system checks, such as calibrations, on treatment planning computers.