PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-717

PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly

ISSUE 717

AUGUST 2012
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ublications are critical to a unit’s mission. Without knowing the right maintenance
procedures or NSNs to get repair parts, units can’t keep their equipment fully mission
capable.
The Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) is the ofFcial Army publications source
for Army technical and equipment manuals (except engineering and medical).
You can access these pubs from the LOGSA website at:
NOTE: The LIW portal was being redesigned as this issue went to press.
The portal entrance will look different and interior visuals may vary.
The schedule shows when weapon system
CD-ROMs/DVDs will be updated. If nothing
changes on a CD-ROM/DVD, an update will
not be done for that period.
Now, here’s how to Fnd electronic technical
manuals (ETMs) or interactive electronic
technical manuals (IETMs):
•
PIN number—
If you know the PIN (publication identiFcation number) of the
pub you want (e.g.
074758
), enter it here and click
SEARCH
. Every manual has a
PIN (six-digit number) on the back cover.
•
EM number—
If you know the EM number for the weapons system, you can get
a list of all the manuals on a CD-ROM. Enter only the four-digit number (e.g.
0030
)
of the EM. (See the Table of ±ielded CD-ROMs at the bottom of the page to look up
a number.)
•
Pub number—
Enter the type of pub and its number (e.g.
TM 9-2330-398-10
,
or
TB 43-0209
). You can even type in just the beginning of a pub number (e.g.
TM
9-2330-
), click
Search
and get a listing of all the TMs for that series.
•
Pub title text—
Enter any word, model number or NSN that appears in the pub
title. This search works if you don’t have a PIN or TM number. You may want to use
several variations to help Fnd what you want (e.g.
HMMWV, M998, M1114
). Use
any main word that appears on a manual’s front cover. ±or example, searching for
“AH-64” will bring up pubs speciFcally for the Apache helicopter, but a search with
the general word “helicopter” will return all helicopter pubs.
•
LIN search—
Enter the LIN for the major item in the tech pub.
•
NIIN search—
Enter the NIIN of the major item in the tech pub.
A NIIN is the last nine numbers of an NSN. If there are no results,
try putting the NIIN in the Pub Title Text block and searching again.
How to Find ETMs and IETMs Online
ConniE!
HelP!!
where Can
I find TMs
for our
equipment?
don’t
panic,
private—
it’s as
easy as
E-T-M!
most equipment
TMs are now
electronic and
you can find
them on LOGSA’s
ETM Online.
LOGSA also
has
I
ETMs--
those are ETMs
that are designed to
be interactive with
equipment, so they
have a diagnostics
interface.
On the main page,
select the Publications
tab at the top. From
the dropdown, select
ETMs Online.
Be sure to explore features on this page, like the
Weapons System Schedule listed at the bottom.
Be sure to check out
features at bottom
The ETM
Search
screen
offers
six
ways
to
search
for
tech pubs.
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