Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.

“Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.” is a core task performed by Foundry Mold and Coremakers. Among the occupation's 13 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#7 most important). About 67% 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.

• Assemble products or work aids. 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 patterns inside mold sections, and clamp sections together. · importance 4.6
• 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
• 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  = {Form and assemble slab cores around patterns, and position wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glue.},
  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-12059}
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