Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.

“Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.” is a core task performed by Pourers and Casters, Metal. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 16th by importance (#1 most important). About 99% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Read temperature gauges and observe color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary to melt metal to specifications. · importance 4.7
• Remove solidified steel or slag from pouring nozzles, using long bars or oxygen burners. · importance 4.6
• Assemble and embed cores in casting frames, using hand tools and equipment. · importance 4.6
• Examine molds to ensure they are clean, smooth, and properly coated. · importance 4.6
• Collect samples, or signal workers to sample metal for analysis. · importance 4.6
• Turn valves to circulate water through cores, or spray water on filled molds to cool and solidify metal. · importance 4.5
• Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles. · importance 4.5
• Pull levers to lift ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights. · importance 4.5
• Position equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signal other workers to position equipment. · importance 4.5
• Skim slag or remove excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling. · importance 4.4
• Remove metal ingots or cores from molds, using hand tools, cranes, and chain hoists. · importance 4.3
• Repair and maintain metal forms and equipment, using hand tools, sledges, and bars. · importance 4.3
• Add metal to molds to compensate for shrinkage. · importance 4.1
• Stencil identifying information on ingots and pigs, using special hand tools. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Pourers and Casters, Metal page.

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-12007,
  title  = {Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-12007}
}