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O*NET detailed work activityRemove products or workpieces from production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
30 jobs34 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 Remove workpieces from production 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, 34 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Stop machines to remove finished workpieces or to change tooling, setup, or workpiece placement, according to required machining sequences.
- Remove items from washers or dry-cleaning machines, or direct other workers to do so.
- Remove workpieces from machines, and check to ensure that they conform to specifications, using measuring instruments such as microscopes, gauges, calipers, and micrometers.
- Move pieces from wheels so that they can dry.
- Remove defective or substandard materials from machines, and readjust machine components so that products meet standards.
- Inspect and remove defective products and packaging material.
- Remove finished packaged items from machine and separate rejected items.
- Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels.
- Remove finished workpieces from machines and place them in boxes or on racks, setting aside pieces that are defective.
- Remove objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observe objects to verify conformance to specifications.
- Remove cooked material or products from equipment.
- Clear jams, and remove defective or substandard materials or products.
- Remove parts from furnaces after specified times, and air dry or cool parts in water, oil brine, or other baths.
- Fill or remove product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoops, peels, or shovels, or by hand.
- Remove dyed articles from tanks and machines for drying and further processing.
- Stop machines to remove completed components, using hand tools.
- Remove completed workpieces from equipment or work tables, using hand tools, and place workpieces in containers.
- Remove products from equipment, manually or using hoists, and prepare them for storage, shipment, or additional processing.
- Remove completed workpieces and place them in trays.
- Remove products, machine attachments, or waste material from machines.
- Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.
- Remove completed workpieces or parts from machinery, using hand tools.
- Unload finished products from conveyor belts, pack them in containers, and place containers in warehouses.
- Unclamp and remove finished workpieces from tables.
- Remove materials, parts, or workpieces from painting or coating machines, using hand tools.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
- Remove and stack completed materials or products, and restock materials to be joined.
- Remove completed materials or products from cutting or slicing machines, and stack or store them for additional processing.
- Remove holding devices and finished items from machines.
- Load and unload items from machines, conveyors, and conveyances.
- Remove spindles from machines and bobbins from spindles.
- Load machines with objects to be processed and unload them after cleaning, placing them on conveyors or racks.
- Remove finished cores, and stack or place them on conveyors for transfer to other work areas.
- Unclamp and hoist full reels from braiding, winding, or other fabricating machines, using power hoists.