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O*NET detailed work activityManeuver workpieces in equipment during production
Stays humanHands-on work
6 jobs6 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 Position workpieces or materials on equipment, 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, 6 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Guide garments or garment parts under machine needles and presser feet to sew parts together.
- Pull wires through bases of articles and wheels to separate finished pieces.
- Guide workpieces against saws, saw over workpieces by hand, or operate automatic feeding devices to guide cuts.
- Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
- Hold stones, gems, dies, or styluses against rotating plates, wheels, saws, or slitters to cut, shape, slit, grind, or polish them.
- Position and move metal wires or workpieces through a series of dies that compress and shape stock to form die impressions.