Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.

“Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.” is a core task performed by Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#12 most important). About 89% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Select materials or equipment for operations or projects. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers. · importance 4.6
• Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles. · importance 4.6
• Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing. · importance 4.5
• Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing. · importance 4.5
• Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons. · importance 4.5
• Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed. · importance 4.5
• Shrink, stretch, or block articles by hand to conform to original measurements, using forms, blocks, and steam. · importance 4.4
• Identify and treat spots on garments. · importance 4.4
• Finish fancy garments such as evening gowns and costumes, using hand irons to produce high quality finishes. · importance 4.4
• Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them. · importance 4.4
• Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons. · importance 4.3
• 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. · importance 4.3
• Use covering cloths to prevent equipment from damaging delicate fabrics. · importance 4.3
• Spray water over fabric to soften fibers when not using steam irons. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-14040,
  title  = {Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-14040}
}