Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Cleaning and smoothing molds, cores, and core boxes, and repairing surface imperfections.
• Moving and positioning workpieces, such as mold sections, patterns, and bottom boards, using cranes, or signaling others for moving workpieces.
• Sprinkling or spraying parting agents onto patterns and mold sections for facilitating removal of patterns from molds.
• Positioning patterns inside mold sections and clamping sections together.
• Positioning cores into lower sections of molds, and reassembling molds for pouring.
• Sifting and packing sand into mold sections, core boxes, and pattern contours, using hand or pneumatic ramming tools.
• Tending of the machines used for bonding the top and bottom parts of sand casting molds.
• Cutting spouts, runner holes, and sprue holes into molds.
• Lifting upper mold sections from lower sections and removing molded patterns.
• Forming and assembling slab cores around patterns and positioning wire in mold sections to reinforce molds, using hand tools and glues.