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O*NET detailed work activityFeed materials or products into or through equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
21 jobs21 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 Position workpieces or materials on equipment, 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, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Thread yarn, thread, and fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines for weaving, knitting, or other processing.
- Place spools of thread, cord, or other materials on spindles, insert bobbins, and thread ends through machine guides and components.
- Feed paper through press cylinders and adjust feed and tension controls.
- Move toolholders manually or by turning handwheels, or engage automatic feeding mechanisms to feed tools to and along workpieces.
- Supply materials to spindles, conveyors, hoppers, or other feeding devices and unload packaged product.
- Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
- Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
- Feed stock into cutting machines, onto conveyors, or under cutting blades, by threading, guiding, pushing, or turning handwheels.
- Thread or feed sheets or rods through rolling mechanisms, or start and control mechanisms that automatically feed steel into rollers.
- Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
- Move cutters or material manually or by turning handwheels, or engage automatic feeding mechanisms to mill workpieces to specifications.
- Thread ends of cloth or twine through specified sections of equipment prior to processing.
- Place rolls of paper or cardboard on machine feed tracks, and thread paper through gluing, coating, and slitting rollers.
- Feed products into machines by hand or conveyor.
- Thread and hand-feed materials through machine cutters or abraders.
- Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components.
- Start conveyors to move roasted grain to cooling pans and agitate grain with rakes as blowers force air through perforated bottoms of pans.
- Set pyrometer controls of heat-treating furnaces and feed or place parts, tools, or assemblies into furnaces to harden.
- Position and feed materials into processing machines, by hand or by using automated equipment.
- Thread or feed items or products through or around machine rollers and dryers.