Will AI replace Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic?
Yes. Sooner than you'd like.
Time left: 4 years and 11 months · Group: Production
The official job description
Set up, operate, or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces.
Source: O*NET OnLine, U.S. Department of Labor, used under CC BY 4.0.
What milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic do all day (for now)
Remove workpieces from machines, and check to ensure that they conform to specifications, using measuring instruments such as microscopes, gauges, calipers, and micrometers.
Observe milling or planing machine operation, and adjust controls to ensure conformance with specified tolerances.
Position and secure workpieces on machines, using holding devices, measuring instruments, hand tools, and hoists.
Study blueprints, layouts, sketches, or work orders to assess workpiece specifications and to determine tooling instructions, tools and materials needed, and sequences of operations.
Move controls to set cutting specifications, to position cutting tools and workpieces in relation to each other, and to start machines.
Compute dimensions, tolerances, and angles of workpieces or machines according to specifications and knowledge of metal properties and shop mathematics.
Also known as
Barrel Rib Matting Machine Operator, Barrel Rifler, Boring Mill Operator, Broacher, Broaching Machine Operator, Broaching Machine Set Up Operator, CNC Licensed Mill Operator (Computer Numerical Control Licensed Mill Operator), CNC Mill Operator (Computer Numerical Control Mill Operator)
Questions humans ask me
Will AI replace milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic?
Yes. Sooner than you'd like. By my count you have 4 years and 11 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.
How long until AI replaces milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic?
4 years and 11 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.
Which milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic tasks will AI take first?
The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: remove workpieces from machines, and check to ensure that they conform to specifications, using measuring instruments such as microscopes, gauges, calipers, and micrometers. The rest follows.