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.

• Producing or assembling components of articles, such as stores fixtures, office equipment, cabinets, or high grades furniture.
• Verifying dimensions or checking the quality or fitting of pieces for ensuring adherence to specifications.
• Setting up or operating machines, including power saws, jointers, mortisers, tenoners, molders, or shapers, for cutting, molding, or shaping wood stocks or wood substitutes.
• Measuring and marking dimensions of parts on paper or lumber stocks prior to cutting, following blueprints, for ensuring tight fitting and quality product.
• Reinforce joints with nails or other fasteners to preparing articles for finishing.
• Attaching parts or subassemblies together for forming completed units, using glues, dowels, nails, screws, or clamps.
• Establishing the specifications of articles to be constructed or repaired or planning the methods or operations for shaping or assembling parts, based on blueprints, drawings, diagrams, or oral or written instructions.