Which jobs involve set equipment guides, stops, spacers, or other fixtures?

14 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Engine and Other Machine Assemblers, Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic.

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).

Set equipment guides, stops, spacers, or other fixtures

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	14 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 14 occupations that perform it.

Set up and maintain master key systems.
Set and verify parts clearances.
Select, align, and bolt positioning fixtures, stops, and specified dies to rams and anvils, forging rolls, or presses and hammers.
Set distance points between rolls, guides, meters, and stops, according to specifications.
Position guides, stops, holding blocks, or other fixtures to secure and direct workpieces, using hand tools and measuring devices.
Slide spacers between buffs on spindles to set spacing.
Adjust equipment and workpiece holding fixtures, such as mold frames, tubs, and cutting tables, to ensure proper functioning.
Set machine stops or guides to specified lengths as indicated by scales, rules, or templates.
Measure and set stops, rolls, brushes, and guides on automatic feeders and conveying equipment or coating machines, using micrometers, rules, and hand tools.
Position materials such as cloth garments, felt, or straw on tables, dies, or feeding mechanisms of pressing machines, or on ironing boards or work tables.
Adjust bolts, clamps, stops, guides, or table angles or heights, using hand tools.
Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
Position width gauge blocks between blades, and level blades and insert wedges into frames to secure blades to frames.
Adjust guide assemblies, forming bars, and folding mechanisms according to specifications, using hand tools.
Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components, such as rams or power presses, when making multiple or successive passes.
Adjust air cylinders and setting stops to set traverse lengths and feed arm strokes.

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

14 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 “Set up equipment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Install mechanical components in production equipment	14
Set up laboratory or field equipment	10
Install equipment attachments or components	7
Set up still or video cameras or related equipment	5
Attach equipment extensions or accessories	4
Set up material handling gear or equipment, such as rigging, packaging, or temporary structures	3
Prepare film for distribution or use	3
Attach rigging to objects so they can be moved	2

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.