Will AI replace Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic?
Estimated risk score: 10 out of 100
Very low replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (0 to 29).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 16 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 51-4021.00 · Production
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 0 of its 16 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
None of its rated tasks.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 15 of its 16 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Change dies on extruding machines, according to production line changes.
- Clean work areas.
- Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
- Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
- Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.
- Troubleshoot, maintain, and make minor repairs to equipment.
What the job is
Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.
Also called: Grid Maker, Rod Drawer, Grid Caster, Grid Molder, Rod Pointer, Tube Drawer, Wire Drawer, Wire Puller.
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