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O*NET detailed work activityDetermine metal or plastic production methods
AI-assistPlan & schedule
5 jobs6 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 operational methods or procedures, 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 (0 AI-ready, 5 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
- Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
- Determine types and temperatures of baths and quenching media needed to attain specified part hardness, toughness, and ductility, using heat-treating charts and knowledge of methods, equipment, and metals.
- Determine sizes and compositions of objects to be plated, and amounts of electrical current and time required.
- Determine flame temperatures, current frequencies, heating cycles, and induction heating coils needed, based on degree of hardness required and properties of stock to be treated.