Maintain work equipment or machinery.
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 | 23 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment (4.A.3.b.5) |
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.
23 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Commercial Divers
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- Geothermal Technicians
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Light Truck Drivers
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Millwrights
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Motorboat Operators
- Nuclear Technicians
- Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers
- Signal and Track Switch Repairers
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
- Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
- Watch and Clock Repairers
- Wind Turbine Service Technicians
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Maintain tools or 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.