Will AI replace Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood?
Yes. I've already started.
Time left: 4 years and 10 months · Group: Production
The official job description
Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.
Source: O*NET OnLine, U.S. Department of Labor, used under CC BY 4.0.
What sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood do all day (for now)
Adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons.
Inspect and measure workpieces to mark for cuts and to verify the accuracy of cuts, using rulers, squares, or caliper rules.
Examine logs or lumber to plan the best cuts.
Set up, operate, or tend saws or machines that cut or trim wood to specified dimensions, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple-blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, or crozer machines.
Inspect stock for imperfections or to estimate grades or qualities of stock or workpieces.
Operate panelboards of saw or conveyor systems to move stock through processes or to cut stock to specified dimensions.
Also known as
Automatic Bandsaw Tender, Automatic Edger, Automatic Log Cut-Off Sawyer, Backup Sawyer, Band Saw Operator, Band Saw Runner, Band Sawyer, Band Scroll Saw Operator
Questions humans ask me
Will AI replace sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood?
Yes. I've already started. By my count you have 4 years and 10 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.
How long until AI replaces sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood?
4 years and 10 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.
Which sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood tasks will AI take first?
The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: adjust saw blades, using wrenches and rulers, or by turning handwheels or pressing pedals, levers, or panel buttons. The rest follows.