MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS

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MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART (MAC) INTRODUCTION (Contd)

MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS

Maintenance functions are limited to and defined as follows:

Inspect. To determine the serviceability of an item by comparing its physical, mechanical, and/or

electrical characteristics with established standards through examination (e.g., by sight, sound, or

feel). This includes scheduled inspection and gauging and evaluation of cannon tubes.

Test. To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical

characteristics of an item and comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards on a

scheduled basis, i.e., load testing of lift devices and hydrostatic testing of pressure hoses.

Service. Operations required periodically to keep an item in proper operating condition; i.e., to

clean (includes decontamination, when required), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish

fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids, or gases. This includes scheduled exercising and purging of

recoil mechanisms.

Adjust. To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper position, or by

setting the operating characteristics to specified parameters.

Align. To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired

performance.

Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments or

test, measuring, and diagnostic equipment used in a precision measurement. Consists of

comparisons of two instruments, one of which is a certified standard of known accuracy, to detect

and adjust any discrepancy in the accuracy of the instrument being compared.

Remove/Install. To remove and install the same item when required to perform service or other

maintenance functions. Install may be the act of emplacing, seating, or fixing into position a spare,

repair part, or module component or assembly) in a manner to allow the proper functioning of an

equipment or system.

Replace. To remove an unserviceable item and install a serviceable counterpart in its place.

"Replace" is authorized by the MAC and assigned maintenance level is shown as the third position

code of the Source, Maintenance and Recoverability (SMR) code.

NOTE

The following definitions are applicable to the repair

maintenance functions:

Services Inspect, test, service, adjust, align, calibrate, and/or replace.

Fault location/troubleshooting The process of investigating and detecting the cause of

equipment malfunctioning; the act of isolating a fault within a system or Unit Under

Test (UUT).

Disassembly/assembly The step-by-step breakdown (taking apart) of a spare/functional

group coded item to the level of its least component, that is assigned an SMR code for the

level of maintenance under consideration (i.e., identified as maintenance significant).

Actions Welding, grinding, riveting, straightening, facing, machining, and/or resurfacing.

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