Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 40 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 40 occupations that perform it.
- Perform quality assurance system checks, such as calibrations, on treatment planning computers.
- Repair, adjust, or replace electrical or mechanical components or parts, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering or welding equipment.
- Check antenna positioning to ensure specified azimuths or mechanical tilts and adjust as necessary.
- Adjust or modify equipment to enhance equipment performance or to respond to customer requests.
- Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
- Adjust working parts, such as fan belts, contacts, and springs, using hand tools and gauges.
- Adjust, repair, or replace defective wiring and relays in ignition, lighting, air-conditioning, and safety control systems, using electrician's tools.
- Repair or adjust equipment, machines, or defective components, replacing worn parts, such as gaskets or seals in watertight electrical equipment.
- Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings.
- Adjust sensitivity of units, based on room structures and manufacturers' recommendations, using programming keypads.
- Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
- Examine and adjust protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices.
- Reassemble machines and equipment following repair, testing operation and making adjustments, as necessary.
- Adjust, maintain, and repair or replace subassemblies, such as transmissions and crawler heads, using hand tools, jacks, and cranes.
- Adjust repaired or replaced units as needed to ensure proper operation.
- Adjust generators and replace faulty wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.
- Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.
- Turn valves to allow measured amounts of air or gas to pass through meters at specified flow rates.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
40 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Avionics Technicians
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Geothermal Technicians
- Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical Dosimetrists
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Millwrights
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Power Plant Operators
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Rail Car Repairers
- Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
- Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
- Traffic Technicians
- Watch and Clock Repairers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.