Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.

“Test or calibrate components or equipment, following manufacturers' manuals and troubleshooting techniques, using hand tools, power tools, or measuring devices.” is a core task performed by Medical Equipment Repairers. Among the occupation's 19 rated tasks, workers place it 19th by importance (#1 most important). About 99% 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.

• Test performance of equipment or systems. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance. 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: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.011% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Perform preventive maintenance or service, such as cleaning, lubricating, or adjusting equipment. · importance 4.5
• Keep records of maintenance, repair, and required updates of equipment. · importance 4.4
• Disassemble malfunctioning equipment and remove, repair, or replace defective parts, such as motors, clutches, or transformers. · importance 4.4
• Examine medical equipment or facility's structural environment and check for proper use of equipment to protect patients and staff from electrical or mechanical hazards and to ensure compliance with safety regulations. · importance 4.2
• Test, evaluate, and classify excess or in-use medical equipment and determine serviceability, condition, and disposition, in accordance with regulations. · importance 4.1
• Plan and carry out work assignments, using blueprints, schematic drawings, technical manuals, wiring diagrams, or liquid or air flow sheets, following prescribed regulations, directives, or other instructions as required. · importance 4.1
• Study technical manuals or attend training sessions provided by equipment manufacturers to maintain current knowledge. · importance 4.0
• Explain or demonstrate correct operation or preventive maintenance of medical equipment to personnel. · importance 4.0
• Research catalogs or repair part lists to locate sources for repair parts, requisitioning parts and recording their receipt. · importance 3.9
• Repair shop equipment, metal furniture, or hospital equipment, including welding broken parts or replacing missing parts, or bring item into local shop for major repairs. · importance 3.8
• Solder loose connections, using soldering iron. · importance 3.8
• Compute power and space requirements for installing medical, dental, or related equipment and install units to manufacturers' specifications. · importance 3.7
• Contribute expertise to develop medical maintenance standard operating procedures. · importance 3.6
• Fabricate, dress down, or substitute parts or major new items to modify equipment to meet unique operational or research needs, working from job orders, sketches, modification orders, samples, or discussions with operating officials. · importance 3.5

See all tasks on the Medical Equipment Repairers 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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “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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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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