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O*NET detailed work activityReplace worn equipment components
Stays humanHands-on work
35 jobs38 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 Repair tools or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 38 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Change worn cutting tools, using wrenches.
- Perform routine equipment maintenance such as cleaning and lubricating machines or replacing broken needles.
- Maintain machines and remove and replace broken or worn machine tools, using hand tools.
- Replace worn tools, using hand tools, and sharpen dull tools, using bench grinders.
- Change worn machine accessories, such as cutting tools or brushes, using hand tools.
- Repair or replace machine parts, using hand tools, or notify engineering personnel when corrective action is required.
- Replace worn dies when products vary from specifications.
- Repair or replace damaged equipment.
- Sharpen blades, or replace defective or worn blades or bands, using hand tools.
- Repair or replace worn or defective needles and other components, using hand tools.
- Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools.
- Replace worn parts and adjust equipment components, using hand tools.
- Change or replace saw blades, cables, cutter heads, and grinding wheels, using hand tools.
- Rebuild, repair, or replace biofuels processing equipment components.
- Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools.
- Replace defective blades or wheels, using hand tools.
- Dismantle machines or equipment, using hand tools or power tools to examine parts for defects and replace defective parts where needed.
- Repair or replace damaged molds, pipes, belts, chains, or other equipment, using hand tools, hand-powered presses, or jib cranes.
- Repair or replace gas piping.
- Repair, maintain, and replace parts on dies.
- Replace, true, and sharpen blades, drills, and plates.
- Repair, replace, and maintain furnace equipment as needed, using hand tools.
- Perform minor repairs to machines, such as replacing damaged or worn parts.
- Repair broken scrolls by replacing them with new sections of tubing.
- Replace worn or defective equipment parts, using hand tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Remove and replace dull cutting tools.
- Replace worn tools, and sharpen dull cutting tools and dies, using bench grinders or cutter-grinding machines.
- Adjust machine feed and speed, change cutting tools, or adjust machine controls when automatic programming is faulty or if machines malfunction.
- Rework, repair, or replace damaged parts or assemblies.
- Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.
- Adjust, repair, rework, or replace parts or assemblies to ensure proper operation.
- Perform equipment maintenance tasks such as replacing needles, sanding rough areas of needles, or cleaning and oiling sewing machines.
- Remove and replace worn or broken machine parts, using hand tools.
- Install new or replace broken meters.
- Replace or sharpen dulled cutting tools such as saws.
- Maintain and repair laboratory equipment.
- Change machine gears, using wrenches.
- Maintain or repair athletic equipment.