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.

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.

• Dressing grinding wheels, according to specifications.
• Monitoring machine operations for determining whether adjustments are necessary, stopping machines when problems occur.
• Inspecting, touching, and measuring workpieces for ensuring that surfaces and dimensions meet specifications.
• Setting up and operating grinding or polishing machines to metal workpieces, such as dies, parts, and tools.
• Removing finished workpieces from machines and placing them in boxes or on racks, setting aside pieces that are defective.
• Filing or finishing surfaces of workpieces, using prescribed hand tools.
• Selecting and mounting grinding wheels on machines, according to specifications, using hand tools and applying knowledge of abrasives and grinding procedures.
• Performing basic maintenance, such as cleaning and lubricating machine parts.
• Removing and replacing worn or broken machine parts, using hand tools.
• Computing numbers, widths, and angles of cutting tools, micrometers, scales, and gauges, and adjusting tools for producing specified cuts.