TM 10-7360-211-13&PAPPENDIX BMAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHARTB-1. GENERAL.a. This section provides a generalSection I. INTRODUCTIONexplanation of all maintenance and repair functions authorized atvarious maintenance categories.b. The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) in section II designates overall authority and respon-sibility for the performance of maintenance functions on the identified end item or component. Theapplication of the maintenance functions to the end item or component will be consistent with thecapacities and capabilities of the designated maintenance categories.c. Section Ill lists the tools and test equipment (both special tools and common tool sets) requiredfor each maintenance function as referenced from section Il.d. Section IV contains supplemental instructions and explanatory notes for a particular maintenancefunction.B-2. MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS. Maintenance functions will be limited to and defined as follows:a. 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).b. Test.To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or electricalcharacteristics of an item and comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards.c. Service. Operations required periodically to keep an item in proper operating condition, i.e., toclean (includes to decontaminate, when required), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel,lubricants, chemical fluids, or gases.d. Adjust. To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper or exact posi-tion, or by setting the operating characteristics to specified parameters.e. Align.To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired per-formance.f. Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments ortest, measuring, and diagnostic equipments used in precision measurement. Consists of comparisons oftwo instruments, one of which is a certified standard of known accuracy, to detect and adjust anydiscrepancy in the accuracy of the instrument being compared.g. Remove/Install. To remove and install the same item when required to perform service or othermaintenance 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 anequipment or system.h. Replace. To remove an unserviceable item and install a serviceable counterpart in its place.“Replace” is authorized by the MAC and is shown as the 3rd position code of the SMR code.B-1
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