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O*NET detailed work activityCalibrate scientific or technical equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
20 jobs24 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, 3 AI-assist, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Calibrate devices by comparing measurements of pressure, temperature, humidity, or other environmental conditions to known standards.
- Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
- Calibrate vehicle systems, including control algorithms or other software systems.
- Adjust or repair testing, electrical, or mechanical equipment or devices.
- Calibrate nanotechnology equipment, such as weighing, testing, or production equipment.
- Adjust, repair, or replace faulty components of test setups and equipment.
- Monitor and adjust production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.
- Install, maintain, and calibrate instruments such as those that monitor water levels, rainfall, and sediments.
- Program farm equipment, such as variable-rate planting equipment or pesticide sprayers, based on input from crop scouting and analysis of field condition variability.
- Install, calibrate, operate, or maintain robots.
- Repair, rework, or calibrate hydraulic or pneumatic assemblies or systems to meet operational specifications or tolerances.
- Calibrate and maintain chemical instrumentation sensing elements and sampling system equipment, using calibration instruments and hand tools.
- Calibrate microscopes or test instruments.
- Calibrate or adjust equipment to ensure quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.
- Perform quality assurance system checks, such as calibrations, on treatment planning computers.
- Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
- Monitor raw data quality during collection, and make equipment corrections as necessary.
- Calibrate data collection equipment.
- Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Select, calibrate, or operate equipment used in the non-destructive testing of products or materials.
- Calibrate, validate, or maintain laboratory equipment.
- Install, calibrate, or maintain sensors, mechanical controls, GPS-based vehicle guidance systems, or computer settings.
- Evaluate the efficiency and reliability of industrial robotic systems, reprogramming or calibrating to achieve maximum quantity and quality.
- Monitor or calibrate automated systems, industrial control systems, or system components to maximize efficiency of production.