Maintain ophthalmic instruments or equipment.

“Maintain ophthalmic instruments or equipment.” is a core task performed by Ophthalmic Medical Technicians. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 8th by importance (#13 most important). About 100% 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.

• Maintain medical equipment or instruments. in Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment

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

• Take and document patients' medical histories. · importance 5.0
• Operate ophthalmic equipment, such as autorefractors, phoropters, tomographs, or retinoscopes. · importance 4.9
• Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure. · importance 4.9
• Measure visual acuity, including near, distance, pinhole, or dynamic visual acuity, using appropriate tests. · importance 4.9
• Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements of the eye or surrounding tissue, such as axial length measurements. · importance 4.9
• Measure and record lens power, using lensometers. · importance 4.9
• Administer topical ophthalmic or oral medications. · importance 4.8
• Conduct visual field tests to measure field of vision. · importance 4.7
• Assist physicians in performing ophthalmic procedures, including surgery. · importance 4.7
• Measure corneal curvature with keratometers or ophthalmometers to aid in the diagnosis of conditions, such as astigmatism. · importance 4.7
• Conduct ocular motility tests to measure function of eye muscles. · importance 4.6
• Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments. · importance 4.6
• Instruct patients in the care and use of contact lenses. · importance 4.3
• Assess refractive conditions of eyes, using retinoscopes. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Ophthalmic Medical Technicians 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-19247,
  title  = {Maintain ophthalmic instruments or equipment.},
  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-19247}
}