Calculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production.

Calculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 12 occupations and seen in 12 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Determine resource needs of projects or operations. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems .

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 12 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (58%) 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 2 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.

• Draw smelted metal samples from furnaces or kettles for analysis, and calculate types and amounts of materials needed to ensure that materials meet specifications. · Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Calculate machine speed and feed ratios and the size and position of cuts. · Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Compute numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjust tools to produce specified cuts. · Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Calculate, measure, load, or mix biomass feedstock for power generation. · Biomass Plant Technicians · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Calculate load estimates or equipment requirements to determine required control settings. · Power Distributors and Dispatchers · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Calculate, measure, load, or mix refined feedstock used in biofuels production. · Biofuels Processing Technicians · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Calculate etching time based on thickness of material to be removed from wafers or crystals. · Semiconductor Processing Technicians · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Calculate draft space and roll speed for each mill stand to plan rolling sequences and specified dimensions and tempers. · Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Calculate amounts of materials to be loaded into furnaces, adjusting amounts as necessary for specific conditions. · Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas. · First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers · importance 3.9 · direct LLM exposure
• Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics. · Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Determine packaging requirements. · Logistics Analysts · importance 2.9 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
• Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators
• Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
• Biomass Plant Technicians
• Power Distributors and Dispatchers
• Biofuels Processing Technicians
• Semiconductor Processing Technicians
• Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
• First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
• Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Logistics Analysts

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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