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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Sheet Metal Workers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Sheet Metal Workers · O*NET 47-2211.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

7 of 18tools 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

14 matched to the tools sheet metal workers use. Showing 14.

  • 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

    App

    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.

  • Autodesk

    MCP server

  • Easy Autocad

    MCP server

  • Excel

    MCP server

  • Excel

    Skill

  • Finalcad

    App

  • LightningCad

    App

    LightningCAD is an online user-guided design platform that is customized to your business. The sophistication of CAD and the simplicity of CPQ, LightningCAD solutions translate your business rules into a dynamic 2D/3D end to end design/configure solution that will help your busin

  • Microsoft

    MCP server

  • Microsoft 365 Excel

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • PowerOffice

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Spreadsheet

    Skill

  • Spreadsheetcom

    App

The tools this job actually uses

18 documented for this occupation. Showing 18, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Autodesk AutoCADhot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Applied Production ProFab
  • Applied Production ProFold
  • Corte Certo
  • FCC Software AutoPOL Series
  • JETCAM Expert
  • Merry Mechanization SMP/IS
  • PTC Creo Parametric
  • QuickPen DuctDesigner 3D
  • Revcad Software Sheet Lightning
  • Siemens NX
  • Striker Systems SS-Profile
  • WiCAM PN4000
  • XY Soft Sheet Cutting Suite

What this job involves

19 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 19.

  1. Inspect individual parts, assemblies, or installations, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, scales, or micrometers.
  2. Maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary.
  3. Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.
  4. Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
  5. Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.
  6. Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.
  7. Hire, train, or supervise new employees or apprentices.
  8. Lay out, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, such as roofing panels, using calculators, scribes, dividers, squares, or rulers.
  9. Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.
  10. Determine project requirements, such as scope, assembly sequences, or required methods or materials, using blueprints, drawings, or written or verbal instructions.
  11. Maneuver completed roofing units into position for installation.
  12. Convert blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products.
  13. Select gauges or types of sheet metal or nonmetallic material, according to product specifications.
  14. Shape metal material over anvils, blocks, or other forms, using hand tools.
  15. Verify that heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are designed, installed, and calibrated in accordance with green certification standards, such as those of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
  16. Trim, file, grind, deburr, buff, or smooth surfaces, seams, or joints of assembled parts, using hand tools or portable power tools.
  17. Perform building commissioning activities by completing mechanical inspections of a building's water, lighting, or heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
  18. Fasten roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding.
  19. Finish parts, using hacksaws or hand, rotary, or squaring shears.
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