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O*NET detailed work activityHeat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production
Stays humanHands-on work
10 jobs13 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 Prepare industrial materials for processing or use, 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, 13 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Heat glass to pliable stage, using gas flames or ovens and rotating glass to heat it uniformly.
- Apply heat to plastic panels, using hot-air welding guns or immersion in hot water, and press the softened panels back into shape by hand.
- Preheat tools, dies, plastic materials, or patterns, using blowtorches or other equipment.
- Heat billets, bars, plates, rods, and other stock to specified temperatures preparatory to forging, rolling, or processing, using oil, gas, or electrical furnaces.
- Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
- Place electrodes in tube ends and heat them with glass burners to fuse them into place.
- Anneal finished workpieces to relieve internal stress.
- Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
- Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches.
- Preheat workpieces, using heating furnaces or hand torches.
- Anneal precious metal objects such as coffeepots, tea sets, and trays in gas ovens for prescribed times to soften metal for reworking.
- Preheat workpieces in ovens.