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O*NET detailed work activityPlan production or operational procedures or sequences
AI-readyPlan & schedule
17 jobs20 tasks
Describe the goal, the people and the constraints, and AI drafts the plan, schedule or checklist. You adjust it to what you know about real life on the ground.
Part of Plan work activities, under the O*NET work activity group Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (18 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Develop or implement actions such as lockouts, tagouts, or clearances to allow equipment to be safely repaired.
- Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
- Prepare switching orders that will isolate work areas without causing power outages, referring to drawings of power systems.
- Modify mixing, grouting, grinding, or cleaning procedures, according to type of installation or material used.
- Divide patterns into sections according to shapes of castings to facilitate removal of patterns from molds.
- Plan movement of products through lines to processing, storage, and shipping units, using knowledge of system interconnections and capacities.
- Plan locations and sequences of cutting, drilling, bending, rolling, punching, and welding operations, using compasses, protractors, dividers, and rules.
- Implement energy schedules, including real-time transmission reservations or schedules.
- Develop operation, safety, and maintenance procedures or assist in their development.
- Determine work assignments and procedures.
- Develop plans for investigating alleged computer crimes, violations, or suspicious activity.
- Examine freight to determine loading sequences.
- Plan sequences of operations, applying knowledge of physical properties of workpiece materials.
- Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
- Sort shop orders into groups to maximize materials utilization and minimize machine setup time.
- Establish work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.
- Plan and develop new products and production processes.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Read and interpret assembly blueprints or specifications manuals, and plan assembly or building operations.
- Read and interpret blueprints or drawings of parts to be cast or patterns to be made, compute dimensions, and plan operational sequences.