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.

• Adjusting depths and sizes of cuts by adjusting heights of worktables, or by adjusting machine arm gauges.
• Engraving and printing patterns, designs, etchings, trademarks, or lettering onto flat or curved surfaces of a wide variety of metal, glass, plastic, or paper items, using hand tools or hand held power tools.
• Positioning and clamping workpieces, plates, or rollers in holding fixtures.
• Determining machine settings, and moving bars or levers for reproducing designs on rollers or plates.
• Examining engraving for quality of cutting, burrs, rough spots, and irregular or incomplete engraving.
• Measuring and computing dimensions of lettering, designs, or patterns to be engraved.
• Starting machines and lowering cutting tools to beginning points on patterns.
• Cleaning and polishing engraved areas.
• Examining sketches, diagrams, samples, blueprints, or photographs for deciding how designs are to be etched, cutting, or engraved onto workpieces.
• Preparing etching chemicals according to formulas, diluting acid with water for obtaining solutions of specified concentration.