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O*NET detailed work activityOperate textile cutting or production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs16 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 Operate cutting or grinding equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 16 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Start machines, monitor operation, and make adjustments as needed.
- Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed.
- Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed.
- Stop machines when specified amounts of product have been produced.
- Tend machines that twist together two or more strands of yarn or insert additional twists into single strands of yarn to increase strength, smoothness, or uniformity of yarn.
- Stop machines when specified amount of products has been produced.
- Adjust machine controls, such as heating mechanisms, tensions, or speeds, to produce specified products.
- Set up, or set up and operate textile machines that perform textile processing and manufacturing operations such as winding, twisting, knitting, weaving, bonding, or stretching.
- Stop machines when specified amounts of product have been produced.
- Tend spinning frames that draw out and twist roving or sliver into yarn.
- Adjust machine settings such as speed or tension to produce products that meet specifications.
- Adjust machine heating mechanisms, tensions, and speeds to produce specified products.
- Operate machines to cut multiple layers of fabric into parts for articles such as canvas goods, house furnishings, garments, hats, or stuffed toys.
- Tend machines with multiple winding units that wind thread onto shuttle bobbins for use on sewing machines or other kinds of bobbins for sole-stitching, knitting, or weaving machinery.