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O*NET detailed work activityMount attachments or tools onto production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
36 jobs51 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, 51 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Mount, install, align, and secure tools, attachments, fixtures, and workpieces on machines, using hand tools and precision measuring instruments.
- Select, install, and adjust alignment of drills, cutters, dies, guides, and holding devices, using templates, measuring instruments, and hand tools.
- Hold or position spray guns to direct spray onto articles.
- Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
- Change dies on extruding machines, according to production line changes.
- Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
- Position, secure, and align cutting tools in toolholders on machines, using hand tools, and verify their positions with measuring instruments.
- Install tools in spindles.
- Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
- Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.
- Position, align, and secure arbors, spindles, coils, mandrels, dies, and slitting knives.
- Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
- Install holding fixtures, cams, gears, and stops to control stock and tool movement, using hand tools, power tools, and measuring instruments.
- Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
- Mount and position tools in machine chucks, spindles, or other tool holding devices, using hand tools.
- Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
- Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, or stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Install attachments to machines for gluing, folding, printing, or cutting.
- Mount attachments and tools, such as pantographs, engravers, or routers, to perform other operations, such as drilling or boring.
- Install, align, and lock specified punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.
- Mount and bolt sawing blades or attachments to machine shafts.
- Mount attachments, such as relieving or tracing attachments, to perform operations, such as duplicating contours of templates or trimming workpieces.
- Mount attachments, such as needles, cutting blades, or pattern plates, and adjust machine guides according to specifications.
- Install dies onto machines or presses and coat dies with parting agents, according to work order specifications.
- Start machines and lower cutting tools to beginning points on patterns.
- Position dies on material in a manner that will obtain the maximum number of parts from each portion of material.
- Position spouts or chutes of storage bins so that containers can be filled.
- Select and install blades, tools, or other attachments for each operation.
- Position ply stitcher rollers and drums according to width of stock, using hand tools and gauges.
- Insert cutting tools or bits into machines and secure them with wrenches.
- Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
- Mount fixtures and industrial coils on machines, using hand tools.
- Install, align, and adjust neck rings, press plungers, and feeder tubes.
- Insert forming fixtures, and start machines that cut frozen products into measured portions or specified shapes.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Select and install cutting tools and other accessories according to specifications, using hand tools or power tools.
- Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.
- Position and adjust cutting tools to specified curvature, dimensions, and depth of cut.
- Select and install machine components, such as dies, molds, and cutters, according to specifications, using hand tools and measuring devices.
- Select and install machine components, such as cutting blades, rollers, and templates, according to specifications, using hand tools.
- Move controls or mount gears, cams, or templates in machines to set feed rates and cutting speeds, depths, and angles.
- Select, align, and bolt positioning fixtures, stops, and specified dies to rams and anvils, forging rolls, or presses and hammers.
- Install, level, and align components, such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles, to set up machinery for operation.
- Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles to set up machinery for operation.
- Obtain and move specified patterns to work stations, manually or using hoists, and secure patterns to machines, using wrenches.
- Change or replace saw blades, cables, cutter heads, and grinding wheels, using hand tools.
- Measure, space, and set saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications.
- Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles to set up machinery for operation.
- Install, adjust, and remove dies, synchronizing cams, forging hammers, and stop guides, using overhead cranes or other hoisting devices, and hand tools.
- Install repaired parts into equipment or install new equipment.
- Install, level, and align components such as gears, chains, dies, cutters, and needles.
- Select, clean, and install spacers, rubber sleeves, or cutters on arbors.