Position patterns inside mold sections, and clamp sections together.

“Position patterns inside mold sections, and clamp sections together.” is a supplemental task performed by Foundry Mold and Coremakers. Among the occupation's 13 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#3 most important). About 76% 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.

• Position tools or equipment. 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

• Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections. · importance 4.7
• Position cores into lower sections of molds, and reassemble molds for pouring. · importance 4.6
• Sift and pack sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools. · importance 4.6
• Tend machines that bond cope and drag together to form completed shell molds. · importance 4.6
• Sprinkle or spray parting agents onto patterns and mold sections to facilitate removal of patterns from molds. · importance 4.5
• Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue. · importance 4.5
• Move and position workpieces, such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signal others to move workpieces. · importance 4.4
• Rotate sweep boards around spindles to make symmetrical molds for convex impressions. · importance 4.4
• Pour molten metal into molds, manually or with crane ladles. · importance 4.4
• Operate ovens or furnaces to bake cores or to melt, skim, and flux metal. · importance 4.3
• Lift upper mold sections from lower sections, and remove molded patterns. · importance 4.3
• Cut spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Foundry Mold and Coremakers 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.

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  title  = {Position patterns inside mold sections, and clamp sections together.},
  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-12053}
}