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.

• Monitoring pressure gauges, ammeters, flowmeters, thermometers, or products, and adjusting controls for maintaining specified conditions, such as loading rate, product consistency, temperature, air pressure, and machine speed.
• Recording temperatures, amounts of materials processed, or testing results on reporting forms.
• Reading dials and gauges on panel controlling boards for ascertaining temperatures, alkalinities, and densities of mixtures, and turning valves for obtaining specified mixtures.
• Correcting machinery malfunctions by performing actions such as removing jams, and informing supervisors of malfunctions as necessary.
• Starting machinery, such as pumps, feeders, or conveyors, and turning valves for heating, admitting, or transferring products, refrigerants, or mixes.
• Assembling equipment, and attaching pipes, fittings, or valves, using hand tools.
• Scraping, dislodge, or break excess frost, ice, or frozen product from equipment for preventing accumulation, using hands and hand tools.