Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.

Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 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 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) 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 supplies of fuel and air, or control flow of electric current and water coolant to heat furnaces and adjust temperatures. · Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Adjust controls to regulate temperature, pressure, feed, or flow of liquids or gases and times of prescribed reactions, according to knowledge of equipment and processes. · Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Observe air and temperature gauges or metal color and fluidity, and turn fuel valves or adjust controls to maintain required temperatures. · Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• 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
• Adjust temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, flow rate, or transfer of gas to maintain processes at required levels or to correct problems. · Gas Plant Operators · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Move controls to light gas burners and to adjust gas and water flow and flame temperature. · Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained. · Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, or shut-off. · Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
• Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
• Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
• Gas Plant Operators
• Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
• Welding, Soldering, and Brazing 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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