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| All maintenance significant equipment PMCS must be
performed according to the operator's manual, or TM -10. As the battalion maintenance
officer (BMO), you must be familiar with PMCS procedures in order to evaluate the
effectiveness of PMCS conducted in your unit. The following
illustrations show an example PMCS
checklist from the TM -10 for an M977-series truck. Your unit maintenance personnel will use
this type of checklist to perform their daily PMCS. |
| The equipment operator must conduct the
PMCS
inspection in a particular sequence. The number under the ITEM NO. column gives the PMCS
sequence.
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| The checks and services interval is listed next to each
item in the TM -10 PMCS checklist. The intervals are B (before operations), D (during
operations), A (after operations), W (weekly), and M (monthly).
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| A dot adjacent to the item to be inspected indicates
the interval at which a check must be made of that item. In this PMCS checklist extract, the
operator must check item 1b. the windshield, and item 2 the headlights, clearance lamps, and
stoplights before operating the vehicle.
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| The ITEM
TO BE INSPECTED column tells the operator what to inspect. The next column
explains the condition that must exist on the inspected item to render the equipment not
mission capable (NMC).
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| The results of the PMCS inspection are recorded on DA
Form 5988-E or DA Form 2404 (Equipment Inspection and Maintenance
Worksheet). DA Form 5988-E
is an automated form produced by the Unit Level Logistics System-Ground (ULLS-G) and DA Form
2404 is a manual form that may be substituted for DA Form 5988-E. This instruction will
focus on DA Form 5988-E because it is the most common form used to record PMCS inspections. |
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