A task performed by Mechanical Engineers
Develop or test models of alternate designs or processing methods to assess feasibility, sustainability, operating condition effects, potential new applications, or necessity of modification.
Not yet. Workers want this automated (3.5/5), but experts rate today's AI capability at only 2.67/5, the technology isn't there. It's an R&D Opportunity.
Do you want this task automated?
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 8 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 3 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
Why workers want this automated
- Reduces human error38%
- Helps handle larger scale38%
- Frees up time for higher-value work25%
- It's difficult25%
- It's stressful13%
How to automate this
Workers want this gone, but today's tools only get part of the way. Automate the edges.
Judgment, review & checks
Automate the checks, keep the decision with a person.
- 1Write down the rules and checklists you follow to develop or test models of alternate designs or processing methods to assess feasibility, then encode them so routine cases are flagged automatically.
- 2Add validation rules to catch errors before they reach you.
- 3Let AI pre-screen and surface the exceptions, you decide the hard ones.
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This is 1 of 6 tasks studied for Mechanical Engineers, where workers want 83% of tasks automated.
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