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O*NET detailed work activityMeasure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes
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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 Measure physical characteristics of materials, products, or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 25 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
- Measure or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare batters, doughs, fillings, or icings, using scales or graduated containers.
- Measure, weigh, and mix chemical ingredients, according to specifications.
- Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers.
- Weigh materials to be charged into furnaces, using scales.
- Select and measure or weigh ingredients, using English or metric measures and balance scales.
- Measure or weigh materials to be refined, mixed, transferred, stored, or otherwise processed.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix refined feedstock used in biofuels production.
- Weigh ingredients, such as dye, to be mixed together for use in textile processing.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix biomass feedstock for power generation.
- Measure or weigh compounds and solutions for use in testing or animal feed.
- Measure or weigh materials, using rulers, calculators, and scales.
- Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.
- Weigh, measure, and record fuel used.
- Weigh or measure chemicals, coatings, or paints before adding them to machines.
- Measure or weigh specified amounts of ingredients or materials, and load them into tanks, vats, hoppers, or other equipment.
- Weigh or measure specified amounts of ingredients or materials for processing, using devices such as scales and calipers.
- Measure, mix, cut, shape, soften, and join materials and ingredients, such as powder, cornmeal, or rubber to prepare them for machine processing.
- Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.
- Measure ingredients and mix molding, casting material, or sealing compounds to prescribed consistencies, according to formulas.
- Measure and mix ingredients to prepare glue.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products at specified intervals to ensure conformance to requirements.
- Measure, weigh, or mix cleaning solutions, using measuring tanks, calibrated rods or suction tubes.
- Measure and mix chemicals to prepare solutions for processing, according to formulas.
- Weigh, mix, and melt metal alloys or materials needed for jewelry models.