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Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Production Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 51-4191 · 1 skills

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  • Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heat cycle requirements for objects to be heat-treated.
  • Record times that parts are removed from furnaces to document that objects have attained specified temperatures for specified times.
  • Adjust controls to maintain temperatures and heating times, using thermal instruments and charts, dials and gauges of furnaces, and color of stock in furnaces to make setting determinations.

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