Will “Buttonhole Maker” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Mark identification numbers, trademarks, grades, marketing data, sizes, or model numbers on products.

• Position templates or measure materials to locate specified points of cuts or to obtain maximum yields, using rules, scales, or patterns.

• Route items to provide cutouts for parts, using portable routers, grinders, and hand tools.

• Mark cutting lines around patterns or templates, or follow layout points, using squares, rules, and straightedges, and chalk, pencils, or scribes.

• Stack cut items and load them on racks or conveyors or onto trucks.

• Unroll, lay out, attach, or mount materials or items on cutting tables or machines.

• Fold or shape materials before or after cutting them.

• Lower table-mounted cutters such as knife blades, cutting wheels, or saws to cut items to specified sizes.

• Read work orders to determine dimensions, cutting locations, and quantities to cut.

• Replace or sharpen dulled cutting tools such as saws.

• Trim excess material or cut threads off finished products, such as cutting loose ends of plastic off a manufactured toy for a smoother finish.

• Count or weigh and bundle items.

• Separate materials or products according to size, weight, type, condition, color, or shade.

• Mark or discard items with defects such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shapes or finishes.

• Adjust guides and stops to control depths and widths of cuts.

• Clean, treat, buff, or polish finished items, using grinders, brushes, chisels, and cleaning solutions and polishing materials.

• Transport items to work or storage areas, using carts.

• Cut, shape, and trim materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench-mounted tools.