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.

• Turning and pressing knobs and buttons or entering operating instructions into computers for adjusting and starting welding machines.
• Setting up, operating, or tending welding machines for joining or bonding components for fabricating metal products or assemblies.
• Loading workpieces into welding machines for joining or bonding components.
• Giving directions to other workers regarding machine setting up and using.
• Correcting problems by adjusting controls or by stopping machines and opening holding devices.
• Inspecting, measuring, or testing completed metal workpieces for ensuring conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices.
• Recording operational information on specified production reports.
• Starting, monitoring, and adjusting robotic welding production lines.
• Reading blueprints, working orders, or production schedules for determining product or job instructions or specifications.
• Assembling, aligning, and clamping workpieces into holding fixtures for bonding, heat treating, or soldering fabricated metal components.