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.

• Recording production and testing data, such as processing steps, temperature and steam readings, cooking time, batches processed, and testing results.
• Listening for malfunction alarms, and shutting down equipment and notifying supervisors when necessary.
• Collecting and examining product samples during production for testing their quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.
• Observing gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjusting controls for maintaining appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.
• Reading working orders, recipes, or formulas for determining cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.
• Cleaning, washing, and sterilizing equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses.
• Setting temperature, pressure, and time controls, and starting conveyers, machines, or pumps.
• Tending or operating and controlling equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, for cooking ingredients or preparing products for further processing.