Will AI replace Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders?
Estimated risk score: 16 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 35).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 28 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 51-9041.00 · 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: 2 of its 28 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.
- Complete work tickets, and place them with products.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 26 of its 28 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
- Clean dies, arbors, compression chambers, and molds, using swabs, sponges, or air hoses.
- Clear jams, and remove defective or substandard materials or products.
- Move materials, supplies, components, and finished products between storage and work areas, using work aids such as racks, hoists, and handtrucks.
- Press control buttons to activate machinery and equipment.
- Synchronize speeds of sections of machines when producing products involving several steps or processes.
What the job is
Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.
Also called: Domer, Bailer, Divider, Rebrander, Bag Bailer, Butt Maker, Jordan Man, Lump Maker.
Related jobs, estimated
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tendersestimate ±1917Very low
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tendersestimate ±1915Very low
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tendersestimate ±1913Very low
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tendersestimate ±1919Very low
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate