Develop equipment or component configurations.

Develop equipment or component configurations. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Design industrial systems or equipment. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment .

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 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (100%) 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.

• Create and lay out designs for drill and blast patterns. · Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Design and lay out geothermal heat systems according to property characteristics, heating and cooling requirements, piping and equipment requirements, applicable regulations, or other factors. · Geothermal Technicians · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Design new equipment to aid in the repair or maintenance of machines, mechanical equipment, or building structures. · Maintenance and Repair Workers, General · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Develop or modify industrial electronic devices, circuits, or equipment, according to available specifications. · Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment · importance 3.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Operate computer-aided drafting and design applications to design avionics system modifications. · Avionics Technicians · importance 3.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Design equipment configurations to meet personnel needs. · First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers · importance 3.1 · exposure with tools
• Create and lay out designs for drill and blast patterns. · Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
• Geothermal Technicians
• Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
• Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
• Avionics Technicians
• First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
• Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

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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