Which jobs involve mount attachments or tools onto production equipment?

37 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers, Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators, Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders, Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment

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.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	37 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 37 occupations that perform it.

Install accessories in swaging machines, using hand tools.
Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
Install, adjust, and remove dies, synchronizing cams, forging hammers, and stop guides, using overhead cranes or other hoisting devices, and hand tools.
Position, align, and secure arbors, spindles, coils, mandrels, dies, and slitting knives.
Install, align, and lock specified punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.
Install tools in spindles.
Mount and position tools in machine chucks, spindles, or other tool holding devices, using hand tools.
Position, secure, and align cutting tools in toolholders on machines, using hand tools, and verify their positions with measuring instruments.
Select and install cutting tools and other accessories according to specifications, using hand tools or power tools.
Align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, or materials onto machines.
Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment.
Install dies onto machines or presses and coat dies with parting agents, according to work order specifications.
Select, install, and adjust alignment of drills, cutters, dies, guides, and holding devices, using templates, measuring instruments, and hand tools.
Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, or stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
Mount fixtures and industrial coils on machines, using hand tools.
Select and mount grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.

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.

Our pickBuy nothing

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.

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Who does this work

37 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Position workpieces or materials on equipment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment	36
Feed materials or products into or through equipment	21
Adjust fabrics or other materials during garment production	9
Maneuver workpieces in equipment during production	6
Position raw materials on processing or production equipment	6

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.