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.

• Measuring completed workpieces for verifying conformance to specifications, using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.
• Examining completed workpieces for defects, such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sorting defective pieces according to types of flaws.
• Reading working orders or production schedules for determining specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
• Loading workpieces, plastic material, or chemical solutions into machines.
• Setting up, operating, or tending machines for sawing, cutting, shearing, slitting, punching, crimping, notching, bending, or straightening metal or plastic material.
• Starting machines, monitoring their operations, and recording operational data.
• Testing and adjusting machine speeds or actions, according to product specifications, using gauges and hand tools.
• Installing, aligning, and locking specified punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.