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.

• Inspecting coated or plated areas for defects, such as air bubbles or uneven coverage.
• Immersing objects to be coated or plated into cleaning solutions, or spraying objects with conductive solutions to preparing them for plating.
• Immersing workpieces in coating solutions or liquid metal or plastic for specified times.
• Setting up, operating, or tending plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal for protecting or decorating surfaces.
• Positioning and loading materials into processing machines, by hand or by using automated equipment.
• Testing machinery for ensuring that it is operating properly.
• Operating hoists for placing workpieces onto machine loading carriages or spindles.
• Maintaining production records.
• Adjusting controls to setting temperatures of coating substances and speeds of machines and equipment.
• Removing objects from solutions at periodic intervals and observing objects for verifying conformance to specifications.