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.

• Melting and soldering along adjoining edges of workpieces to solder joints, using soldering irons, gas torches, or electric ultrasonic equipment.
• Heating soldering irons or workpieces to specified temperatures for soldering, using gas flames or electric current.
• Examining seams for defects and reworking defective joints or broken parts.
• Melting and separating brazed or soldered joints for removing and straightening damaged or misaligned components, using hand torches, irons, or furnaces.
• Melting and soldering for filling holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products, using soldering equipment.
• Cleaning workpieces for removing dirt or excess acid, using chemical solutions, files, wire brushes, or grinders.
• Guiding torches and rods along joints of workpieces for heating them to brazing temperatures, melting braze alloys, and bonding workpieces together.
• Adjusting electric current and timing cycles of resistance welding machines for heating metals for bonding temperature.
• Cleaning equipment parts, such as tips of soldering irons, using chemical solutions or cleaning compounds.