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.

• Adjusting machine components to regulating speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
• Examining, measuring, and weighing materials or products for verifying conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.
• Monitoring machine operations and observing lights and gauges for detecting malfunctions.
• Pressing controlling buttons for activating machinery and equipment.
• Turning controls for adjusting machine functions, such as regulating air pressure, creating vacuums, and adjusting coolant flow.
• Reviewing working orders, specifications, or instructions for determining materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines.
• Selecting and installing machine components, such as dies, molds, and cutters, according to specifications, using hand tools and measuring devices.
• Recording and maintaining production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.