Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of water, cleaning solutions, or other liquids.

Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of water, cleaning solutions, or other liquids. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 9 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. in Handling and Moving Objects .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 9 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 1 (11%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Regulate equipment operations and conditions, such as water levels, based on instrument data or from computers. · Power Plant Operators · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, to adjust supplies of combustion air, and to control the flow of fuel into burners. · Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Start pumps and open valves or use automated equipment to regulate the flow of oil in pipelines and into and out of tanks. · Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Calibrate liquid flow devices and meters, including fuel, chemical, and water meters. · Biofuels Processing Technicians · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Turn valves to regulate flow of liquids or air, to reverse machines, to start pumps, or to regulate equipment. · Helpers--Production Workers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Calibrate liquid flow devices or meters, including fuel, chemical, and water meters. · Biomass Plant Technicians · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Start machines and turn handwheels or valves to engage feeding, cooling, and lubricating mechanisms. · Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Turn valves to pump sterilizing solutions or rinse water through pipes or equipment or to spray vats with atomizers. · Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Turn valves to regulate the moisture contents of materials. · Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Power Plant Operators
• Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
• Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
• Biofuels Processing Technicians
• Helpers--Production Workers
• Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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