Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters and Set-Up Operators

Set up or set up and operate machines, such as glass forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to manufacture any of a wide variety of products, such as soap bars, formed rubber, glassware, food, brick, and tile, by means of extruding, compressing, or compacting.

Job Task

• Operates machines and notifies supervisor or setup personnel of needed adjustments to machines.
• Turns controls to control machine functions, such as regulate air pressure, create vacuum, and coolant flow.
• Synchronizes speed of sections of machine when producing products involving several steps or processes.
• Installs, aligns, and adjusts neck rings, press plungers, and feeder tubes to molds to deliver material and form product.
• Collects, examines, measures, weighs, and tests product to verify machine setup and conformance of product to specifications.
• Cleans dies, arbors, compression chambers, and molds, using swabs, sponge, or airhose and swabs molds with solution to prevent sticking.
• Removes products from discharge belts and molds, mold components, and feeder tubes from machines.
• Records product information, such as scrap quantity, machine number, and ingredients, to complete work ticket and places tickets with product.
• Routes sample to lab for analysis, according to procedure.
• Disassembles and repairs machinery and equipment.
• Installs dies or molds in machines to produce products from variety of materials, according to work order and specifications.
• Observes operation of machine and product to detect and diagnose cause of faulty operation and monitors gauges and recorders.
• Presses control button to activate machinery and equipment.
• Ignites burner to preheat product or applies heat, using torch.
• Feeds product into machine by hand or conveyor.
• Pours, scoops, or dumps specified ingredients, metal assemblies, or mixtures into sections of machine prior to starting machine.
• Threads extruded strip through water tank and holddown bars or attaches strands to wire and draws through tube.
• Adjusts timer drum to set size of product material and rollers, cutoff knives, and stops to regulate thickness and length.
• Couples air and gas lines to machine to maintain plasticity of material and to regulate solidification of final product.
• Selects and measures arbors and dies to verify size specified on work ticket.

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