PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-569
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 569
APRIL 2000
Dear Half-Mast,
I need a translation of Para 3-3 in DA Pam 738-750 on how to apply
the 10 percent window for scheduled services.
Currently, I allow a 10 percent variance before and after the scheduled
service date. That is, I can do an annual service 36 days before to 36
days after the scheduled date.
At a briefing I was told that I had to divide the days equally and allow
only 18 days on either side of the scheduled date for a total of 36 days
for an annual service. What’s the story?
CW2 G. E.
Maintenance Management . . .
Dear Mr. G. E.,
The experts at DA say that you are right to apply the 10 percent variance before
and after the scheduled service date.
Here is how it works. Let’s say the annual service date for a 5-ton truck is
15 May 00. However, the vehicle is dispatched on 12 May and won’t be back until
25 May. What do you do?
Here’s how to figure the 10 percent variance:
Number of days (annual = 360) x 10 percent = 36 days.
Then, by applying the results on both sides of the date, you are allowed to pull
the service 36 days before or 36 days after the scheduled service date. This means
you can do the service as early as 10 Apr or as late as 20 Jun.
This formula also works for hours or miles. Just plug them into the formula in
place of days.
Take note that some services may be too critical to allow the 10 percent
variance. The maintenance procedure in the tech manual will tell you when the
variance is not allowed.
eed a listing of all the equipment
publications required by your unit? The
USAMC Logistics Support Activity
(LOGSA) can give it to you from their
Equipment Oriented Publication Data
Base (EOPDB).
There are several ways to get a list
tailored for your unit:
If your unit uses the Standard Prop-
erty Book System-Redesign (SPBS-R),
send LOGSA an e-mail or mail a disk
containing your unit’s hand receipt.
Not on SPBS-R? Send a recap of
your unit’s equipment with the Unit
Publications . . .
Identification Code (UIC) to LOGSA
either in hard copy or on e-mail.
Call, write or e-mail LOGSA for
an equipment disk which will help you
submit your equipment data to
LOGSA.
Write:
USAMC LOGSA
Bldg 5307
ATTN: AMXLS-AP
Redstone Arsenal, AL
35898-7466
E-mail: eopdb@logsa.army.mil
Call: DSN 897-6115/(256) 313-6115
Remember, though, this brings only
a list of the pubs you need. You will
still have to order them.
⌫
⌫
⌫
this
disk
from
logsa will help
us
tailor
our
pubs lists!
great,
but i don't
think this thing
has a
disk
drive
!
my annual
service was due
last week
. am i
in
trouble
?
don't sweat
it! you're still
in the
grace
period
.
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