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Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping, QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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name: wearing-apparel-presser
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description: "Occupational skill for the role 'wearing apparel presser' (also: ironing lady, pressing machine operator for garment and related materials, garment presser, topper-press operator, ironing person, apparel presser). Use when the user asks for typical wearing apparel presser work such as: Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.; Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.; Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing."
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# Wearing Apparel Presser
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Wearing apparel pressers use steam irons, vacuum pressers, or hand pressers to shape wearing apparel.
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## Core workflow
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1. Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
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2. Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
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3. Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
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4. Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers.
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5. Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.
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6. Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.
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7. Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them.
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8. Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
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## How to use this skill
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- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
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- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
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- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
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- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
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## Key competences (essential)
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- alter wearing apparel
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- coordinate manufacturing production activities
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- distinguish accessories
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- distinguish fabrics
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- iron textiles
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- manufacture wearing apparel products
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- manufacturing of made-up textile articles
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- manufacturing of wearing apparel
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- perform process control in the wearing apparel industry
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- prepare production prototypes
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## Hot technologies
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- Microsoft Excel
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- Microsoft Word
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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2edd910a-e53e-44ee-b8c2-09e9f9d0395b), O*NET 30.3 (51-6021.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*
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