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.

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.

• Reading blueprints, drawings, or written specifications for determining sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups.
• Laying out patterns on wood stocks and drawing outlines of units, sectional patterns, or full scale mock ups of products, based on blueprint specifications and sketches, and using marking and measuring devices.
• Verifying dimensions of completed patterns, using templates, straightedges, calipers, or protractors.
• Setting up, operating, and adjusting a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and lathes to cutting and shaping sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications.
• Trimming, smoothing, and shaping surfaces, and planes, shaving, filing, scraping, and sanding models for attaining the specified shapes, using hand tools.
• Placing, fastening, and assembling wood parts together for forming patterns, models, or sections, using glues, nails, dowels, bolts, and screws.
• Correcting patterns for compensating for defects in castings.
• Constructing wooden models, templates, full scale mock ups, jigs, or molds for shaping parts of products.