Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.

“Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.” is a core task performed by Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#15 most important). About 94% 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.

• Move materials, equipment, or supplies. in Performing General Physical Activities
• Operate lifting or moving equipment. in Controlling Machines and Processes

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

• Align and position materials being joined to ensure accurate application of adhesive or heat sealing. · importance 4.6
• Adjust machine components according to specifications such as widths, lengths, and thickness of materials and amounts of glue, cement, or adhesive required. · importance 4.5
• Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions and report or resolve problems. · importance 4.5
• Start machines, and turn valves or move controls to feed, admit, apply, or transfer materials and adhesives, and to adjust temperature, pressure, and time settings. · importance 4.5
• Fill machines with glue, cement, or adhesives. · importance 4.5
• Perform test production runs and make adjustments as necessary to ensure that completed products meet standards and specifications. · importance 4.4
• Examine and measure completed materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices such as tape measures, gauges, or calipers. · importance 4.3
• Read work orders and communicate with coworkers to determine machine and equipment settings and adjustments and supply and product specifications. · importance 4.3
• Remove and stack completed materials or products, and restock materials to be joined. · importance 4.2
• Maintain production records such as quantities, dimensions, and thicknesses of materials processed. · importance 4.2
• Remove jammed materials from machines and readjust components as necessary to resume normal operations. · importance 4.2
• Observe gauges, meters, and control panels to obtain information about equipment temperatures and pressures, or the speed of feeders or conveyors. · importance 4.2
• Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines. · importance 4.2
• Clean and maintain gluing and cementing machines, using solutions, lubricants, brushes, and scrapers. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 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  = {Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.},
  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-12611}
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