Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
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 | 36 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2) |
What could do this work.
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.
Who does this work.
36 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 Body and Related Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Bicycle Repairers
- Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Furniture Finishers
- Gem and Diamond Workers
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Lighting Technicians
- Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
- Machinists
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Motorcycle Mechanics
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
- Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Rail Car Repairers
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Tire Repairers and Changers
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Disassemble equipment”. 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.