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O*NET detailed work activityMount materials or workpieces onto production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
36 jobs40 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, 40 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Mount and secure lens blanks or optical lenses in holding tools or chucks of cutting, polishing, grinding, or coating machines.
- Fit, install, and secure material on frames, using hand tools, power tools, glue, cement, or staples.
- Load and adjust workpieces onto equipment or work tables, using hand tools.
- Position and secure workpieces on machines, using holding devices, measuring instruments, hand tools, and hoists.
- Secure printing plates to printing units and adjust tolerances.
- Position, adjust, and secure stock material or workpieces against stops, on arbors, or in chucks, fixtures, or automatic feeding mechanisms, manually or using hoists.
- Position items under needles, using marks on machines, clamps, templates, or cloth as guides.
- Position and secure workpieces on tables, using bolts, jigs, clamps, shims, or other holding devices.
- Select and place spools of thread or pre-wound bobbins into shuttles, or onto spindles or loupers of stitching machines.
- Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
- Unroll, lay out, attach, or mount materials or items on cutting tables or machines.
- Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
- Position products, components, or parts for testing.
- Place shoes on lasts to remove soles and heels, using knives or pliers.
- Collect shoe parts from conveyer belts or racks and place them in machinery such as ovens or on molds for dressing, returning them to conveyers or racks to send them to the next work station.
- Chain or clamp frames and sections to alignment machines that use hydraulic pressure to align damaged components.
- Place tires into molds for new tread.
- Secure gems or diamonds in holders, chucks, dops, lapidary sticks, or blocks for cutting, polishing, grinding, drilling, or shaping.
- Position objects to be plated in frames, or suspend them from positive or negative terminals of power supplies.
- Position and secure workpieces on machines, and start feeding mechanisms.
- Place bobbins on spindles and insert spindles into bobbin-winding machines.
- Place workpieces on cutting tables, manually or using hoists, cranes, or sledges.
- Position and clamp stock on tables, conveyors, or carriages, using hoists, guides, stops, dogs, wedges, or wrenches.
- Position and clamp workpieces, plates, or rollers in holding fixtures.
- Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate cover attachment.
- Position material or articles in clamps, templates, or hoop frames prior to automatic operation of machines.
- Place rubber hoses on ends of tubing and charge tubing with gas.
- Hang curtains, drapes, blankets, pants, and other garments on stretch frames to dry.
- Mount workpieces in fixtures, on arbors, or between centers of machines.
- Splice broken or separated film and mount film on reels.
- Spread soiled articles on work tables, and position stained portions over vacuum heads or on marble slabs.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Mount, install, align, and secure tools, attachments, fixtures, and workpieces on machines, using hand tools and precision measuring instruments.
- Place semiconductor wafers in processing containers or equipment holders, using vacuum wand or tweezers.
- Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines.
- Lift metal stock or workpieces manually or using hoists, and position and secure them in machines, using fasteners and hand tools.
- Lift, position, and secure machined parts on surface plates or worktables, using hoists, vises, v-blocks, or angle plates.
- Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.
- Lift and position workpieces, manually or with hoists, and secure them in hoppers or on machine tables, faceplates, or chucks, using clamps.
- Position, align, and secure workpieces against fixtures or stops on machine beds or on dies.
- Attach workpieces to grinding machines and form specified sections and repair cracks, using welding or brazing equipment.