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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Plating Machine Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Set up, operate, or tend plating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Typically, the product being coated is immersed in molten metal or an electrolytic solution.

Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · O*NET 51-4193.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

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What this job involves

33 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Immerse workpieces in coating solutions or liquid metal or plastic for specified times.
  2. Adjust dials to regulate flow of current and voltage supplied to terminals to control plating processes.
  3. Inspect coated or plated areas for defects, such as air bubbles or uneven coverage.
  4. Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
  5. Observe gauges to ensure that machines are operating properly, making adjustments or stopping machines when problems occur.
  6. Remove objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observe objects to verify conformance to specifications.
  7. Maintain production records.
  8. Remove excess materials or impurities from objects, using air hoses or grinding machines.
  9. Determine sizes and compositions of objects to be plated, and amounts of electrical current and time required.
  10. Test machinery to ensure that it is operating properly.
  11. Measure or weigh materials, using rulers, calculators, and scales.
  12. Measure, mark, and mask areas to be excluded from plating.
  13. Examine completed objects to determine thicknesses of metal deposits, or measure thicknesses by using instruments such as micrometers.
  14. Immerse objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or spray objects with conductive solutions to prepare them for plating.
  15. Read production schedules to determine setups of equipment and machines.
  16. Suspend objects, such as parts or molds from cathode rods, or negative terminals, and immerse objects in plating solutions.
  17. Suspend sticks or pieces of plating metal from anodes, or positive terminals, and immerse metal in plating solutions.
  18. Adjust controls to set temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
  19. Rinse coated objects in cleansing liquids and dry them with cloths, centrifugal driers, or by tumbling in sawdust-filled barrels.
  20. Monitor and measure thicknesses of electroplating on component parts to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers.
  21. Operate hoists to place workpieces onto machine feed carriages or spindles.
  22. Position and feed materials into processing machines, by hand or by using automated equipment.
  23. Position objects to be plated in frames, or suspend them from positive or negative terminals of power supplies.
  24. Operate sandblasting equipment to roughen and clean surfaces of workpieces.