PS Magazine - DECEMBER 1982
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 361
DECEMBER 1982
Dispatch
The new set-up leaves your dispatching operations pretty much intact. You
still use the DD Form 1970, Motor Equipment Utilization Record, as the trip
ticket.
The oNly change lies in the operational (PMCS) DA Form 2404 and using 2
types of DA Forms 2404. Bo±h forms will be given to the operator and a copy of
the deferred maintenance form stays in the Equipment Records Folder.
THe outside pocket of the folder h
o
lds a special identity card or inser² now.
•
Mmin number
•
±Odel number
•
NOun
•
NSN
•
Serial number
•
Next service due
•
Next lube due
•
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T³at info
must
be curreNt. You dispatchers
doublecheck the card each time you send the gear out. Operators kee´ an eye on
the next "lube and service due dates.
ManAgING
THe Sy±²Em
Puttµg the new system in operation takes some hands¶on supervising. In
fact, hands¶on is the pu·pose behiNd it all.
You supervisors, motor sergeants, plat¸on leaders and maintenance types
spent too muc¹ time pushing a peNcil. The new system gives you time tº get out
of the shop and on the
»
line.
The operator and dispatch packet have all the informati¼n. You get with the
operators and make sure they have the know¶how to keep it up!
If you and the TAMMS clerK want a copy of the DEF MAI½T 2404, maKe a
carbon. But the worKing copy is the one in the operator's Equipment Records
Folder.
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Want t¾ inspect the gear or ¿heck on how well PMCÀÁs are being pulled? GeÂ
the fÃlder. Ask the operator to pull a PMCS. Unless you pull weekly and
monthly PMCSÄs duriNg motor stables, stay with the operators and hÅlp them
go throÆgh those ÇÈxtraÉ cÊecks. Ëeekly and monthly PMCÀÁs are treated like
dailies as far as the DÌ Form 2404 is concerned.
Go through the whole dispatch process with your operators. Do they know
the differenÍe between the 2 DA Forms 2404? Do they check deferÎred entries?
Do they ask about the Ïtatus of ordered parts?
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EverythingÐopen faults, dowNgrades, deferred entriesÑshould be on one
or the other DA Form 2404.
½eed to downgrade an
X
status symboL fault to a circled
X
for an urgentÒ
mission? That action's limited to the CO or the maintenance officer noÓ.
But if tÔÕ gear is essentialÖno other item will doÖand the fault will not put
the operators in danger or further damage the equipment, the
X
caN be
Circle the
X
¿
i× Column b of the DA Form 2404 used for PMCSÄs. Put
ØCleared for Ùimited OperationsÉ in Column d and add the specific limÚtsÛ
Initial _Column e and sign in Block 9aÜ
That DA Form 2404Ýsigned in Block 9aÖis only good for that day's
operation. Àtart another DA Form 2404 for the Next day's dispaÂch.
But if the ci·cled
X
fault with its limited operations still exists, that will be
the first entry on the new form in Columns a through eÝiÞitials, tooß
The opàrator will páll a PMCS as
usual. If no new faults are found, he or
she dates Column c undeâ the limited
ops entry and goes on.
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