Fabricate parts or components.
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 | 28 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.
28 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Avionics Technicians
- Boilermakers
- Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Electricians
- Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Glaziers
- Helpers--Electricians
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Millwrights
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Rail Car Repairers
- Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Watch and Clock Repairers
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Fabricate devices or components”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Fabricate devices or components | 6 |
| Fabricate products or components using machine tools | 4 |
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.