Profession stone planer

Stone planers operate and maintain planing machines that are used for stone blocks and slabs finishing. They manipulate the stone and ensure that the required parameters are according to specifications.

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Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Quality standards

  The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

• Types of sawing blades

  Types of cutting blades used in the sawing process, such as band saw blades, crosscut blades, plytooth blades and others, made from tool steel, carbide, diamond or other materials.

• Types of stone for working

  Different types of stone that stonemasons and other stone workers use to process into building materials. The mechanical properties of stone, such as their weight, tensile strength, durability. Economical properties such as cost, transport and sourcing.

Skills

• Maneuver stone blocks

  Maneuver the blocks of stone, placing them in the correct position in the machine bed using electric hoist, wooden blocks and wedges.

• Supply machine with appropriate tools

  Supply the machine with the necessary tools and items for a particular production purpose.

• Inspect stone surface

  Inspect the surface of the stone to identify any uneven areas.

• Use traditional stone splitting techniques

  Drill holes in a large stone and insert the plugs and feathers. Strike the plugs several times until a crack appears.

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Ensure equipment availability

  Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

• Operate precision measuring equipment

  Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.

• Measure materials

  Measure the raw materials prior to their loading in the mixer or in machines, ensuring they conform with the specifications.

• Prepare stone for smoothing

  Prepare the stone for the smoothing process by wetting it with the hose.

• Mark stone workpieces

  Mark planes, lines and points onto a stone workpiece to show where material will be removed.

• Measure flatness of a surface

  Measure the evenness of a workpiece's surface after it has been processed by checking for deviations from the desired perpendicular state.

• Wear appropriate protective gear

  Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.

• Regulate cutting speed

  Regulate the speed and depth of stone cutting by pulling the levers and turning the wheels.

• Dispose of cutting waste material

  Dispose of possibly hazardous waste material created in the cutting process, such as swarf, scrap and slugs, sort according to regulations, and clean up workplace.

• Supply machine

  Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the production line.

• Tend planing machine

  Tend and monitor the planing machine used to shape and smooth the stone blocks and slabs according to specifications.

• Remove processed workpiece

  Remove individual workpieces after processing, from the manufacturing machine or the machine tool. In case of a conveyor belt this involves quick, continuous movement.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB