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.

• Starting machines, adjusting controls, and making trial cuts for ensuring that machinery is operating properly.
• Determining product specifications and materials, working methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or working orders.
• Feeding stocks through loading mechanisms or conveyors for planning, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines for producing the desired components.
• Adjusting machine tables or cutting devices and setting controls on machines for producing specified cuts or operations.
• Monitoring operation of machines and making adjustments for correcting problems and ensuring conformance to specifications.
• Setting up, programming, operating, or tending computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drilling presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood nailing machines.
• Selecting knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.