Skip to content
Automation Squad

Role

AI for Crushing Machine Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.

Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · O*NET 51-9021.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

5 of 5tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

16 matched to the tools crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders use. Showing 16.

The tools this job actually uses

5 documented for this occupation. Showing 5, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • Email software

What this job involves

21 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 21.

  1. Observe operation of equipment to ensure continuity of flow, safety, and efficient operation, and to detect malfunctions.
  2. Clean, adjust, and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
  3. Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps and conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
  4. Move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment that crushes, grinds, polishes, or blends materials.
  5. Notify supervisors of needed repairs.
  6. Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products at specified intervals to ensure conformance to requirements.
  7. Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
  8. Mark bins as to types of mixtures stored.
  9. Transfer materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools.
  10. Add or mix chemicals and ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
  11. Record data from operations, testing, and production on specified forms.
  12. Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
  13. Reject defective products and readjust equipment to eliminate problems.
  14. Inspect chains, belts, or scrolls for signs of wear.
  15. Clean work areas.
  16. Load materials into machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
  17. Turn valves to regulate the moisture contents of materials.
  18. Examine materials, ingredients, or products, visually or with hands, to ensure conformance to established standards.
  19. Set mill gauges to specified fineness of grind.
  20. Read work orders to determine production specifications and information.
  21. Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery and equipment, using hand tools.