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.

• Examining, measuring, and weighing materials or products for verifying conformance to specifications, using measuring devices, such as rulers, micrometers, or scales.
• Setting up, operating, or tending machines for cutting or slicing materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.
• Stacking and sorting cutting material for packaging, further processing, or shipping, according to types and sizes of material.
• Reviewing working orders, blueprints, specifications, or job samples for determining components, settings, and adjustments for cutting and slicing machines.
• Typing instructions on computer keyboards, pushing buttons for activating computer programs, or manually setting cutting guides, clamps, and knives.
• Removing defective or substandard materials from machines, and readjust machine components so that products meet standards.
• Pressing buttons, pulling levers, or depressing pedals for starting and operating cutting and slicing machines.
• Adjusting machine controls for altering the positions, alignment, speed, or pressure.