Turn screws to regulate size of staples.

“Turn screws to regulate size of staples.” is a supplemental task performed by Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#19 most important). About 28% 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.

• Sew garments or materials. 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

• Align parts to be stitched, following seams, edges, or markings, before positioning them under needles. · importance 4.7
• Operate or tend machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts. · importance 4.5
• Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels. · importance 4.5
• Switch on machines, lower pressure feet or rollers to secure parts, and start machine stitching, using hand, foot, or knee controls. · importance 4.4
• Fill shuttle spools with thread from a machine's bobbin winder by pressing a foot treadle. · importance 4.4
• Staple sides of shoes, pressing a foot treadle to position and hold each shoe under the feeder of the machine. · importance 4.4
• Draw thread through machine guide slots, needles, and presser feet in preparation for stitching, or load rolls of wire through machine axles. · importance 4.3
• Study work orders or shoe part tags to obtain information about workloads, specifications, and the types of materials to be used. · importance 4.3
• Perform routine equipment maintenance such as cleaning and lubricating machines or replacing broken needles. · importance 4.3
• Position dies on material in a manner that will obtain the maximum number of parts from each portion of material. · importance 4.2
• Test machinery to ensure proper functioning before beginning production. · importance 4.2
• Collect shoe parts from conveyer belts or racks and place them in machinery such as ovens or on molds for dressing, returning them to conveyers or racks to send them to the next work station. · importance 4.2
• Select and place spools of thread or pre-wound bobbins into shuttles, or onto spindles or loupers of stitching machines. · importance 4.2
• Cut excess thread or material from shoe parts, using scissors or knives. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Shoe 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-14093,
  title  = {Turn screws to regulate size of staples.},
  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-14093}
}