TM 10-6630-222-12&P
OPERATOR AND UNIT MAINTENANCE MANUAL
(INCLUDING REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LIST)
FOR WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS SET: PURIFICATION (WQAS-P)
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
THE ARMY MAINTENANCE SYSTEM MAC.
This introduction provides a general explanation of all maintenance and repair functions authorized at various maintenance
levels under the standard Army Maintenance System concept.
The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) designates overall authority and responsibility for the performance of
maintenance functions on the identified end item or component. The application of the maintenance functions to the end
item or component will be consistent with the capacities and capabilities of the designated maintenance levels, which are
shown on the MAC in column (4) as:
Unit - Includes two subcolumns, C (operator/crew) and O (unit) maintenance.
Direct Support - Includes an F subcolumn
General support - Includes an H subcolumn.
Depot - Includes a D subcolumn.
The tools and test equipment requirements (immediately following the MAC) lists the tools and test equipment (both
special tools and common tool sets) required for each maintenance function as referenced from the MAC.
The remarks (immediately following the tools and test equipment requirements) contain supplemental instructions and
explanatory notes for a particular maintenance function.
MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS.
Maintenance functions will be limited to and defined as follows:
1.
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).
2.
Test. To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical
characteristics of an item and comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards.
3.
Service. Operations required periodically to keep an item in proper operating condition, e.g., to clean
(includes decontaminate when required), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids, or
gases.
4.
Adjust. To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper position, or by setting
the operating characteristics to specified parameters.
5.
Align. To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired performance.
6.
Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments or test,
measuring, and diagnostic equipment used in 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.
7.
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.
8.
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 3rd position code of the SMR
code.
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