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.

• Reading production schedules and working orders for determining processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heating cycle requirements for objects to be heat treated.
• Recording times that parts are removed from furnaces for documenting that objects have attained specified temperatures for specified times.
• Setting up and operating or tending machines, such as furnaces, baths, flame hardening machines, and electronic induction machines, for hardening, annealing, and heat treating metal.
• Determining types and temperatures of baths and quenching media needed for attaining specified part hardness, toughness, and ductility, using heat treating charts and knowledge of methods, equipment, and metals.
• Removing parts from furnaces after specified times, and air drying or cooling parts in water, oil brine, or other baths.
• Positioning the stocks in furnaces, using tongs, chain hoists, or pry bars.
• Instructing new workers in machine operation.