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 lenses and frames for correcting alignment.
• Mounting, securing, and aligning finished lenses in frames or optical assemblies, using precision hand tools.
• Mounting and securing lens blanks or optical lenses in holding tools or chucks of cutting, polishing, grinding, or coating machines.
• Shaping lenses appropriately so that they can be inserted into frames.
• Assembling eyeglass frames and attaching shields, nose pads, and temple pieces, using pliers, screwdrivers, and drills.
• Cleaning finished lenses and eyeglasses, using cloths and solvents.
• Selecting lens blanks, molds, tools, and polishing or grinding wheels, according to production specifications.
• Examining prescriptions, working orders, or broken or used eyeglasses for determining specifications for lenses, contact-lenses, or other optical elements.
• Setting dials and starting machines for polishing lenses or holding lenses against rotating wheels for polishing them manually.
• Setting up machines for polishing, beveling, edging, or grinding lenses, flats, blanks, or other precision optical elements.