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APPENDIX B
INTRODUCTION, SECTION I
GENERAL.
This section provides a general explanation of all maintenance and repair function authorized at various
maintenance categories.
The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MMAC) in section II designates overall authority and responsibility for the
performance of maintenance functions on the identified and item or component. The application of the
maintenance functions to the end item or component will be the capacities and capabilities of the designated
maintenance categories.
Section III lists the tools and test equipment (both special tools and common tools sets) required for each
maintenance function as referenced from section II.
Section IV contains supplemental instructions and explanatory notes for a particular maintenance function.
MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS. Maintenance functions will be 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).
Test. To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical characteristics of
an item and comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards.
Service. Operations required periodically to keep an item in proper operating condition i.e., to clean (includes
decontaminate, when required), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids, or
gases.
Adjust. To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper or exact position, or by setting
the 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 instructions or test, measuring
and diagnostic equipment used in precision measurement. Consists of comparisons of two instructions, 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 is shown as the 3rd position code of the SMR code.
Repair. The application of maintenance services, including fault location/troubleshooting, removal/installation,
and disassemble/assembly procedures, and maintenance action to identify troubles and restore serviceability to
an item by correcting specific damage, fault, malfunction, or failure in a part, subassembly, module (component
or assembly), end item, or system.
