With the increasing technology, the industries are moving from the current state to automation in Industry 4.0 to maximize productivity and maintain consistency in quality. A robotic manipulator with 3 to 5 degrees of freedom is the most frequently employed robot in the industry. They have movable joints and links suitable for industrial and household applications. This work presents a design and fabrication of a multipurpose manual controlled robotic arm (MMCRA) and its control is as simple as operating with a remote. Its applications will exist at pick and place, painting, drilling operations by changing the end effector or gripper of the arm. In the first phase of this study, the modelling and finite element analysis is done by using Unigraphics NX software. In the second phase, the materials are selected by comparing their nodal stresses, deflections of different elements, and a prototype is fabricated. It is validated through real-time applications.