All occupations › ProductionCan AI Replace Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in 2026? Lower exposure. AI could handle about 7% of today's extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders tasks by 2036, and there is a 13% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
10% 2030 · 13% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 4% 2027: 4% 2028: 4% 2029: 5% 2030: 5% 2031: 5% 2032: 6% 2033: 6% 2034: 7% 2035: 7% 2036: 7% 5% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 99 2029: 98 2030: 98 2031: 97 2032: 97 2033: 96 2034: 96 2035: 96 2036: 95 98 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients. 2 Press control buttons to activate machinery and equipment. 3 Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales. 4 Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced. 5 Complete work tickets, and place them with products. Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced". Get visibly better at your human core: "Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Similar occupations Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers · Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Based on 28 O*NET tasks for "Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders" (SOC 51-9041.00). LLM alone: 8% of tasks; with AI tools: 8%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
