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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Welders

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers · O*NET 51-4121.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

5 of 12tools 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.

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What this job involves

30 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  2. Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
  3. Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  4. Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
  5. Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
  6. Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
  7. Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
  8. Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
  9. Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
  10. Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
  11. Align and clamp workpieces together, using rules, squares, or hand tools, or position items in fixtures, jigs, or vises.
  12. Melt and apply solder to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products, using soldering equipment.
  13. Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
  14. Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
  15. Melt and apply solder along adjoining edges of workpieces to solder joints, using soldering irons, gas torches, or electric-ultrasonic equipment.
  16. Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
  17. Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.
  18. Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
  19. Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
  20. Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
  21. Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
  22. Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
  23. Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
  24. Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.