Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The short answer
This job is less likely to change much. Most of the work is the kind AI can't help with. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to shrink over the next decade, with about 139 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the least exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. Most of what it involves isn't the kind of work AI can take over.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with a small part of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the least exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
This job is in the least exposed fifth of New York jobs for AI exposure. The tasks below show why: most of what it involves is work AI can't simply take over.
AI can help with or automate about 6% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Maintain an inventory of materials.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Measure and examine extruded products to locate defects and to check for conformance to specifications, adjusting controls as necessary to alter products.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Determine setup procedures and select machine dies and parts, according to specifications.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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