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.

• Applying color to edges of signatures using brushes, pads, or atomizers.
• Binding new books, using hand tools such as bone folders, knives, hammers, or brass binding tools.
• Compress sewed or glued signatures, using hand presses or smashing machines.
• Cutting binder boards to specified dimensions, using board shears, hand cutters, or cutting machines.
• Cutting covering material to specified dimensions, fitting and gluing material to binder boards by hand or machine.
• Designing original or special bindings for limited editions or other custom binding projects.
• Forming book bodies by folding and sewing printed sheets for forming signatures and assembling signatures in numerical order.
• Imprint or emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on book covers, using gold, silver, or colored foil, and stamping machines.
• Inserting book bodies in devices for forming back edges of books into convex shapes and producing grooves for facilitating the attachment of its covers.
• Maintaining records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.