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.

• Receiving and marking articles for laundry or dry cleaning with identifying code numbers or names, using hand or machine markers.
• Starting washers, dry cleaners, driers, or extractors, and turning valves or levers to regulating machine processes and the volume of soap, detergent, water, bleachs, starch, and other additives.
• Sorting and counting articles removed from dryers, and folding, wrapping, or hanging them.
• Examining and sorting into lots the articles to be cleaned, according to color, fabric, dirt content, and cleaning technique required.
• Loading articles in for washers or dry cleaning machines, or directing other workers to performing loading.
• Mixing and adding detergents, dyes, bleaches, starches, and other solutions and chemicals for cleaning, coloring, drying, or stiffening articles.
• Cleaning machine filters, and lubricating equipment.
• Removing items from washers or dry cleaning machines, or directing other workers to doing so.
• Operating extractors and driers, or directing their operation.