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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Metal Fabricators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters · O*NET 51-2041.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

6 of 8tools 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

13 matched to the tools structural metal fabricators and fitters use. Showing 13.

  • Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

    MCP server
  • AutoCAD is a design and drafting platform which supports automated design tasks and offers features such as 2D drafting, drawing and annotation, 3D modeling and visualization, and more.

  • CorelCAD is a computer-aided design software designed to help businesses across manufacturing, architecture, engineering, and construction industries create and render 2D drawings and 3D designs on a unified platform. The application enables managers to track projects, collaborat

  • Excel

    MCP server
  • Excel

    Skill
  • Make (make.com)

  • Make (make.com)

  • SelfCAD is a computer aided design software, which helps businesses create and render 3D drawings on a unified platform. The 3D modeling system allows designers to modify the resolution of objects or their specific regions and split the drawing into equal quads or triangles.

The tools this job actually uses

8 documented for this occupation. Showing 8, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Computer aided design and drafting CADD software
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Tekla software
  • Three-dimensional modeling software

What this job involves

24 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
  2. Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
  3. Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
  4. Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
  5. Tack-weld fitted parts together.
  6. Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
  7. Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
  8. Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to workpieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
  9. Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
  10. Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
  11. Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
  12. Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
  13. Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
  14. Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
  15. Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
  16. Direct welders to build up low spots or short pieces with weld.
  17. Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
  18. Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches.
  19. Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
  20. Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
  21. Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies.
  22. Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
  23. Install boilers, containers, and other structures.
  24. Troubleshoot and repair electrical or mechanical equipment.