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O*NET detailed work activityCut industrial materials in preparation for fabrication or processing
Stays humanHands-on work
25 jobs31 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 Cut materials, 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, 31 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Cut lengths of tubing to specified sizes, using files or cutting wheels.
- Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
- Cut, strip, and bend wire leads at ends of coils, using pliers and wire scrapers.
- Cut spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds.
- Cut plies at splice points, and press ends together to form continuous bands.
- Cut, shape, and finish rough blocks of building or monumental stone, according to diagrams or patterns.
- Pierce and cut open designs in ornamentation, using hand drills and scroll saws.
- Cut cables and tubing, using master templates, measuring instruments, and cable cutters or saws.
- Cut cover material to specified dimensions, fitting and gluing material to binder boards by hand or machine.
- Cut binder boards to specified dimensions, using board shears, hand cutters, or cutting machines.
- Cut stock manually to prepare for machine cutting, using tools such as knives, cleavers, handsaws, or hammers and chisels.
- Cut, bend, or shape metal for applications in hydroelectric plants, using equipment such as hydraulic benders or pipe threaders.
- Lay out designs on metal stock, and cut along markings to fabricate pieces used to cast metal molds.
- Draw and cut patterns according to specifications.
- Cut products to specified dimensions, using hand or power cutters.
- Scribe or separate wafers into dice.
- Open cabinet doors to cut multifilament threadlines away from guides, using scissors.
- Bore holes or cut grates, risers, or pouring spouts in molds, using power tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Cut, shape, and trim materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.
- Cut timber to the right size, and shape and trim parts of joints to ensure a snug fit, using hand tools, such as planes, chisels, or wood files.
- Cut, shape, and form metal parts, using lathes, power saws, snips, power brakes and shears, files, and mallets.
- Cut, trim, file, bend, or smooth parts to ensure proper fit and clearance.
- Align treads with guides, start drums to wind treads onto plies, and slice ends.
- Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.
- Prepare workpieces for etching or engraving by cutting, sanding, cleaning, polishing, or treating them with wax, acid resist, lime, etching powder, or light-sensitive enamel.
- Lay out and drill, ream, tap, or cut parts for assembly.
- Cut, shape, and trim blanks or blocks to specified lengths or shapes, using power saws, power shears, rules, and hand tools.
- Measure, mix, cut, shape, soften, and join materials and ingredients, such as powder, cornmeal, or rubber to prepare them for machine processing.
- Measure and cut products to specified dimensions, using measuring and cutting instruments.
- Cut grooves, bevels, or miters, saw curved or irregular designs, and sever or shape metals, according to specifications or work orders.
- Splice broken or separated film and mount film on reels.