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O*NET detailed work activityAdjust equipment to ensure optimal performance
Stays humanHands-on work
41 jobs56 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, 56 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.
- Adjust wheel speeds according to the feel of the clay as pieces enlarge and walls become thinner.
- Adjust cameras, photographic mechanisms, or equipment such as range and view finders, shutters, light meters, or lens systems, using hand tools.
- Perform preventive maintenance or service, such as cleaning, lubricating, or adjusting equipment.
- Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.
- Track conditions that could affect power needs, such as changes in the weather, and adjust equipment to meet any anticipated changes.
- Take regulatory action, based on readings from charts, meters and gauges, at established intervals.
- Monitor and adjust operations of geothermal power plant equipment or systems.
- Adjust functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges.
- Adjust working parts, such as fan belts, contacts, and springs, using hand tools and gauges.
- Set up and operate machines, and adjust controls to regulate operations.
- Examine and adjust protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices.
- Adjust sensitivity of units, based on room structures and manufacturers' recommendations, using programming keypads.
- Adjust repaired or replaced units as needed to ensure proper operation.
- Adjust power production systems to meet load and distribution demands.
- Install, connect, or adjust thermostats, humidistats, or timers.
- Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings.
- Adjust machine or freezer speed and air intake to obtain desired consistency and amount of product.
- Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment, such as digital subscriber line modems.
- Adjust system controls to settings recommended by manufacturer to balance system.
- Adjust or modify equipment to enhance equipment performance or to respond to customer requests.
- Adjust generators and replace faulty wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.
- Set up and adjust machines and equipment.
- Verify and adjust alignments and dimensions of parts, using gauges and tracing lathes.
- Adjust felt hammers on pianos to increase tonal mellowness or brilliance, using sanding paddles, lacquer, or needles.
- Set machinery for proper performance, using computers.
- Monitor radio range stations to detect transmission flaws and adjust controls to eliminate flaws.
- String instruments, and adjust trusses and bridges of instruments to obtain specified string tensions and heights.
- Turn valves to allow measured amounts of air or gas to pass through meters at specified flow rates.
- Operate mechanical hoppers and provide assistance in their adjustment and repair.
- Check antenna positioning to ensure specified azimuths or mechanical tilts and adjust as necessary.
- Adjust machine pressure gauges and thermostats.
- Vary air pressure flowing into regulators and turn handles to assess functioning of valves and pistons.
- Make adjustments to meter components, such as setscrews or timing mechanisms, so that they conform to specifications.
- Maintain or make minor adjustments or field repairs to equipment used in surveys, including the replacement of parts on traffic data gathering devices.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Examine completed work to detect defects and verify conformance to work orders, and adjust machinery as necessary to correct production problems.
- Reassemble machines and equipment following repair, testing operation and making adjustments, as necessary.
- Replace defective parts of machine, or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
- Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
- Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
- Reassemble units after repairs are made, making adjustments and cleaning and lubricating parts as needed.
- Adjust string tensions to tune instruments, using hand tools and electronic tuning devices.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair or replace subassemblies, such as transmissions and crawler heads, using hand tools, jacks, and cranes.
- Repair, adjust, or replace electrical or mechanical components or parts, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering or welding equipment.
- Clean, lubricate, or adjust parts, equipment, or machinery.
- Make adjustments to bicycles to improve customer fit and riding position.
- Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
- Set appliance thermostats, and check to ensure that they are functioning properly.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair tools, equipment, and machines, and assist more skilled workers with similar tasks.
- Adjust and maintain industrial machinery, using control and regulating devices.
- Adjust and repair coin, vending, or amusement machines and meters and replace defective mechanical and electrical parts, using hand tools, soldering irons, and diagrams.
- Clean, oil, or adjust mechanical parts to maintain machines' operating efficiency and to prevent breakdowns.
- Adjust, repair, or replace defective wiring and relays in ignition, lighting, air-conditioning, and safety control systems, using electrician's tools.
- Install, adjust, and repair stationary and mobile radio transmitting and receiving equipment and two-way radio communication systems.
- Perform quality assurance system checks, such as calibrations, on treatment planning computers.
- Dismantle meters, and replace or adjust defective parts such as cases, shafts, gears, disks, and recording mechanisms, using soldering irons and hand tools.