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O*NET detailed work activityAdjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products
Stays humanHands-on work
16 jobs26 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 Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, 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, 26 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set up or adjust machine controls to regulate conditions such as material flow, temperature, or pressure.
- Start machines, and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings.
- Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
- Turn valves to regulate flow of products or byproducts through agitator tanks, storage drums, or neutralizer tanks.
- Turn valves or move controls to admit, drain, separate, filter, clarify, mix, or transfer materials.
- Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
- Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.
- Adjust ink fountain flow rates.
- Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required.
- Turn valves or start pumps to add ingredients or drain products from equipment and to transfer products for storage, cooling, or further processing.
- Turn dials, handwheels, valves, or switches to regulate conveyor speeds, machine temperature, air pressure and circulation, and the flow or spray of coatings or paints.
- Start machinery, such as pumps, feeders, or conveyors, and turn valves to heat, admit, or transfer products, refrigerants, or mixes.
- Read dials and gauges on panel control boards to ascertain temperatures, alkalinities, and densities of mixtures, and turn valves to obtain specified mixtures.
- Attach hoses or nozzles to machines, using wrenches and pliers, and make adjustments to obtain the proper dispersion of spray.
- Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed.
- Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.
- Observe flow of finish across finish rollers, and turn valves to adjust flow to specifications.
- Start machines and turn handwheels or valves to engage feeding, cooling, and lubricating mechanisms.
- Monitor environmental factors, such as humidity and temperature, that may impact equipment performance and make necessary adjustments.
- Open valves, gates, or chutes or use shovels to load or remove products from ovens or other equipment.
- Open valves to drain slurry from mixers into storage tanks.
- Press metering-pump buttons and turn valves to stop flow of polymers.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Adjust machine feed and speed, change cutting tools, or adjust machine controls when automatic programming is faulty or if machines malfunction.
- Load materials into extruding and forming machines, using hand tools, and adjust feed mechanisms to set feed rates.
- Weigh packages and adjust freezer air valves or switches on filler heads to obtain specified amounts of product in each container.
- Mix and test solutions, and turn valves to fill tanks with solutions.