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APPENDIX B
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART
Section I. INTRODUCTION
B-1. GENERAL
a. This section provides a general explanation of all maintenance and repair functions authorized at various
maintenance levels.
b. The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) in Section II designates overall responsibility for the performance of
maintenance functions on the identified end item or component. The implementation of the maintenance functions
upon the end item or component will be consistent with the assigned maintenance functions.
c. Section III contains supplemental instructions or explanatory notes for a particular maintenance function.
B-2. MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS
a. Inspect. To determine the serviceability of an item by comparing its physical, mechanical and/or electrical
characteristics with established standards through examination.
b. Test. To verify serviceability and detect incipient failure by measuring the mechanical or electrical characteristics
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., to clean
(decontaminate), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, hydraulic fluids, or compressed air
supplies.
d. Adjust. To maintain, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper or exact position, or by setting the operating
characteristics to specific parameters.
e. Align. To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired performance.
f. Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments or test measuring and
diagnostic equipment used in precision measurements. 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.
g. Install. The act of emplacing, seating, or fixing into position an item, part, or module (component or assembly) in
a manner to allow the proper functioning of the equipment.
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