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O*NET detailed work activitySet equipment controls to meet cutting specifications
Stays humanHands-on work
20 jobs30 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 Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance, 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, 30 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select and set cutting speeds, feed rates, depths of cuts, and cutting tools, according to machining instructions or knowledge of metal properties.
- Set up, operate, and adjust a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and lathes to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.
- Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
- Move controls to set cutting speeds and depths and feed rates, and to position tools in relation to workpieces.
- Move controls to set cutting specifications, to position cutting tools and workpieces in relation to each other, and to start machines.
- Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
- Adjust machine feed and speed, change cutting tools, or adjust machine controls when automatic programming is faulty or if machines malfunction.
- Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
- Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
- Position and adjust cutting tools to specified curvature, dimensions, and depth of cut.
- Set up, operate, and adjust a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and planers to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.
- Select cutting speeds, feed rates, and depths of cuts, applying knowledge of metal properties and shop mathematics.
- Adjust cutting techniques to types of fabrics and styles of garments.
- Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts.
- Adjust guides and stops to control depths and widths of cuts.
- Move controls or mount gears, cams, or templates in machines to set feed rates and cutting speeds, depths, and angles.
- Turn controls to set cutting speeds, feed rates, or table angles for specified operations.
- Adjust depths and sizes of cuts by adjusting heights of worktables, or by adjusting machine-arm gauges.
- Adjust pressures, temperatures, and trimming tool settings as required.
- Measure, space, and set saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications.
- Set reduction scales to attain specified sizes of reproduction on workpieces, and set pantograph controls for required heights, depths, and widths of cuts.
- Position width gauge blocks between blades, and level blades and insert wedges into frames to secure blades to frames.
- Set blade tensions, heights, and angles to perform prescribed cuts, using wrenches.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Select, install, and adjust alignment of drills, cutters, dies, guides, and holding devices, using templates, measuring instruments, and hand tools.
- Remove defective or substandard materials from machines, and readjust machine components so that products meet standards.
- Type instructions on computer keyboards, push buttons to activate computer programs, or manually set cutting guides, clamps, and knives.
- Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
- Install, level, and align components, such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles, to set up machinery for operation.
- Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles to set up machinery for operation.
- Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles to set up machinery for operation.