Remove parts or components from 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.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 8 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 8 occupations that perform it.
- Repair or remove and replace system components.
- Remove and replace defective parts such as coil leads, carbon brushes, and wires, using soldering equipment.
- Remove or cut out defective parts or drill holes to gain access to internal defects or damage, using drills and punches.
- Remove locomotives, car mechanical units, or other components, using pneumatic hoists and jacks, pinch bars, hand tools, and cutting torches.
- Remove damaged exterior panels, and repair and replace structural frame members.
- Remove or disassemble defective automatic mechanical door closers, using hand tools.
- Disconnect or remove defective or unauthorized meters, using hand tools.
- Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.
- Remove, inspect, repair, and install in-flight refueling stores and external fuel tanks.
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
8 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Rail Car Repairers
- Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
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.