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K - knowledge
L - language skills and knowledge
S - skills
S1 - communication, collaboration and creativity
S2 - information skills
S3 - assisting and caring
S4 - management skills
S5 - working with computers
S6 - handling and moving
S7 - constructing
S8 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.0 - working with machinery and specialised equipment
S8.1 - operating mobile plant
S8.2 - driving vehicles
S8.3 - operating watercraft
S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials
S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
S8.5.0 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products
- adjust manufacturing equipment
- adjust scraper bars
- bend staves
- bind fibreglass filaments
- control glass fibres flow
- control odours from prepared animal feeds production
- cool candles in baths
- cure composite workpiece
- emboss designs
- ensure necessary ventilation in machining
- fill cylinders
- finish shells
- make barrel heads
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- operate concrete casting machine
- operate fishing equipment machinery
- operate foil printing machine
- operate furniture machinery
- operate insertion mount machine
- operate paper bag machine
- operate paper folding machine
- operate paper winding machine
- operate pill making machine
- operate pulp moulding machine
- operate tissue sheet binder
- operate wave soldering machine
- operate wood router
- stitch paper materials
- tend cigarette making machine
- tend compression moulding machine
- tend dry-press
- tend fans for machines
- tend fibreglass machine
- tend glass forming machines
- tend heated-air tower
- tend metal fastener machine
- tend plodder machines
- tend riveting machine
- tend soap flake machinery
- tend wax bleaching machinery
- tend winding machines
- transfer wax
S8.5.1 - operating painting or coating machinery
S8.5.2 - operating packaging machinery
S8.5.3 - operating machinery for the manufacture and treatment of textiles, fur and leather products
S8.5.4 - operating food processing machinery
S8.5.5 - operating mixing and separating machinery
S8.5.6 - operating print and photographic production equipment
S8.5.7 - operating metal, plastic or rubber forming equipment
S8.5.8 - operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery
S8.6 - using precision instrumentation and equipment
S8.7 - installing, maintaining and repairing mechanical equipment
S8.8 - installing, maintaining and repairing electrical, electronic and precision equipment
S8.9 - operating aircraft
T - transversal skills and competences

operate industrial equipment

skills

working with machinery and specialised equipment

operating machinery for the manufacture of products

operating machinery for the manufacture of products

operate industrial equipment

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Description

Operate devices, machinery, and equipment used in industrial production. Industrial equipment usually includes mounting, adjusting, clamping, rotating, and indexing elements, as well as mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electromechanical drives that actuate these elements.

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industrial equipment operating

industrial equipment tending

operating industrial equipment

tend industrial equipment

tending industrial equipment

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ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative.

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission developed ESCO in collaboration with stakeholders and with the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

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Current version: ESCO v1.2 (Last update 15/05/2024)