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7-LVL-VOL-1-CHPT-1
7 LVL VOL 1 chapter 1 of 3 all self study and ure
Question | Answer |
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To the greatest extent possible, how should maintenance be performed? | should be preplanned and on a scheduled basis1 |
Using equipment generates what type of maintenance? | corrective maintenace |
What are the two basic types of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance? | on equipment and off equipment |
Maintenance cross-tells are used for what purpose? | highlights trends, benchmarks, or safety conditions relating to maintenance equiment, personnel, training or processes |
What should typically be included in a maintenance cross-tell report in addition to details such as national stock numbers, part numbers, and specific location of problem areas? | relevant background info and history |
What are two major goals of Intermediate Repair Enhancement Program (IREP) meetings? | increase local repair and capability and reduce overall cost of operations |
In order of increasing capability, what are the three separate levels of maintenance? | organizational, intermediate, and depot |
Which level of maintenance is performed off-equipment at the backshop level? | intermediate |
What level of maintenance is used for complex repairs and is located at a major repair facility? | depot |
What combined maintenance approach modifies or eliminates the intermediate (off-equipment) function, where possible, by consolidating that repair function at the depot level? | two level maintenance aka 2lm |
What type of maintenance facility is a hybrid of 2LM and 3LM and combines intermediate-level maintenance from multiple bases to one location? | regional repair center |
What type of specialized regional repair facility provides intermediate-level maintenance for selected commodities? | centrailized repair facility aka crf |
How can a successful R&M program be defined? | one that promotes the ability to identiy and correct system deficiences before they affect comabt capability |
What is the primary scope of the Product Improvement Working Group (PIWG)? | address product deficiences affecting R&M that the field unit cannot resolve and to resolve deficenty reports that single manager assigns to them |
Who takes the lead in identifying, tracking, assessing, and correcting R&M deficiencies on their assigned air and space equipment and also co-chairs the PIWG? | sing manager |
As an end user, what is your primary focus in the DR process? | identify deficenies and poroperly submit reports |
If uncorrected, may cause death, severe injury, or severe occupational illness and no workaround is known. d | 1A |
If uncorrected, may cause major loss or damage to equipment or a system and no workaround is known. | 1B |
Prevents the accomplishment of an essential capability or critically restricts OSS&E, to include interaction with other mission critical platforms or systems, and no acceptable workaround is known. | 1C |
Adversely affects an essential capability or negatively impacts OSS&E and no acceptable workaround is known | 1D |
Adversely affects technical, cost, or schedule risks to the project or life cycle support of the system, or results in a production line stoppage and no acceptable workaround is known. | 1E |
Adversely affects an essential capability or negatively impacts OSS&E and adequate performance is achieved through significant compensation or acceptable workaround. | 2A |
Adversely affects technical, cost, or schedule risks to the project or to life cycle support of the system but an acceptable workaround is known. h | 2B |
Does not affect essential capability but may result in user/operator inconvenience or annoyance. | 2C |
Results in inconvenience or annoyance for development or maintenance personnel but does not prevent the accomplishment of the task. | 2D |
Other effects, such as enhancements having little or no impact to OSS&E under current requirements | 2E |
What MXG agency is tasked with providing technical assistance for DRs? | QA |
When the scope of an OI will cross organizational group lines, at what level should it be published? | OI's must be coordinated and approved by affecting commanders and published as wing intructions |
What office assumes sole responsibility for the accuracy, currency, and integrity of the contents of an OI and for compliance with it? | OPR office of primary responsibility |
Can an AF civil service employee act as the POC for an OI? | yes, only AF civil memeber or mil member, NOT CONTRACTORS |
Which section acts as the OPR for the maintenance policy guidance in the MXG? | QA |
What type of support agreement governs services provided by US Northern Command to US Central Command? | inter-command |
What flight within the MXG normally acts as the POC for SAs? | programs and resource flight which is part of the MOS |
What is the most important thing you must know about SAs? | you must learn what is in them |
What is historical documentation as it pertains to aircraft and equipment? | Historical documentation is the permanent record of significant maintenance actions |
Who is responsible for determining which items in the MDS specific -6 TO need historical reporting and for informing the single manager so the items can be identified for reporting? | Item managers |
For aircraft engines, when are the printed copies of the AFTO IMT 95s not required to accompany end-items upon transfer to/from another location? | As long as they have access to necessary MIS to retrieve the historical information |
During what type of transfer do helicopter blades and tail rotor blades have to be accompanied by a printed copy of their AFTO IMT 95? | during disposal |
Upon transfer of engines to and from a depot maintenance facility, who is responsible for ensuring all basic engine components have been accounted for? | the maintenance facility tthat preserves the engine is responseble |
What aircraft engine documentation is an AFTO IMT 95 primarily used for? | to document accumulated cycles, operating time and maintence history, as well as pertinent manufacturing data for jet engine turbine wheels. |
Which maintenance information system is considered to be the standard AF base-level automated MIS? | IMDS-CDB |
Tracks engines/components for time change. | Comprehensive Engine Management System (CEMS). |
Tracks maintenance on test equipment. | Automatic Test Equipment Reporting System (ATERS). |
Used to create, schedule, and change work center events | Maintenance Events |
Automates location of aircraft, missiles, and AGE. | Location. |
Replaced the Maintenance Data Collection System | Job Data Documentation (JDD). |
Monitors Estimated Time in Commission (ETIC). | Status and Inventory Reporting. |
Supports flying operations in three phases. | Operational Events. |
Allows forecasting of TCTOs and time changes | Inspection and Time Change. |
Provides monitoring and control of TCTO progress | Time Compliance Technical Order |
Allows monitoring of manpower resources. | Maintenance Personnel. |
Gives capability to forecast and schedule training. | Training Management. |
Can be used to order parts. | IMDS-CDB/SBSS. |
Gives the ability to update aircraft operating times. | Automated Debriefing |
Updates/monitors approved/actual aircraft configuration. | Generic Configuration Status Accounting System (GCSAS). |
Used to prefill/print AFTO Forms 781 A, J, and K. | Aircraft Automated Forms. |
In regards to MIS data integrity, what are work center and shift supervisors responsible for doing? | they're responsible for reviweing, on a daily basis, data entered into their respective MIS by personnel under their control |
What section guides the data integrity team process and is responsible for ensuring the MIS data provided to maintenance managers is meaningful and factual? | The maintenance Operations Flight (MOF) MMA section |
What section is responsible for correcting incorrect and erroneous data entered into the MIS? | The section that entered the erroneous data is responsible for correcting it |
As roadmaps, what can maintenance management metrics, if used properly, help you to determine? | Where your organization has been, where you are goig and how or if you are going to get there |
What are two major categories that metrics are often divided into? | leading and lagging |
What type of performance indicator shows a problem first, while it is impacting maintenance’s capability to provide resources to execute the mission? | leading indicators |
What type of indicator shows firmly established trends? | lagging indicators |
Percentage of aircraft that land in “Code 3” status. | Break Rate (BR). |
Average number of deferred discrepancies across the fleet of possessed aircraft. | Deferred Discrepancy Rate (DDR). |
Percentage of “Code 3” aircraft repaired to flyable status is set time, i.e. 4, 8 or 12 hours | Fix Rate (FR). |
) Most important and accurate measure of the unit’s maintenance quality. | Repeat/Recurring (R/R) Discrepancy Rate. |
Average number of sorties or hours flown per Primary Aerospace vehicle authorized per month. | Utilization (UTE) Rate |
The best known yardstick for measuring a unit’s performance | Mission Capable (MC) rate |
Average percentage of aircraft that are unable to meet primary assigned missions (calculated monthly/annually) for maintenance reasons. | Total Not Mission capable Maintenance (TNMCM) Rate |
What maintenance repair priority level should be assigned to perform maintenance on primary mission aircraft, related AGE, and munitions support equipment for the first 8 hours after landing or start of recovery? | Prioity 2 |
What maintenance repair priority level should be assigned to perform scheduled maintenance to include periodic inspections, routine TCTOs, and TCIs? | Priority 4 |
What maintenance repair priority level should be assigned to perform routine repair of AGE and repair cycle assets? | priority 5 |
If a change is made to the repair priority level, does the LRS parts delivery priority have to be changed to match it? | No, but the production superintendent should coordinate with MOC on the decision |
Which type of maintenance ensures that equipment is ready and available at the time | Preventive |
Which of the following is used to highlight trends, benchmarks, or safety conditions relating to maintenance equipment, personnel, training, or processes? | Cross-tells |
Who is the office of primary responsibility (OPR) for the Intermediate Repair Enhancement Program? | Maintenance group commander |
Which maintenance capability category is performed at backshop level and consists of off-equipment maintenance? | Intermediate |
All requests for depot level assistance must be coordinated through? | Quality Assurance and Plans, Scheduling, and Documentation |
What do you call wing-level maintenance facilities providing intermediate-level maintenance repair support for multiple Air Force units within a particular theater of operations? | Centralized Repair Facilities |
What program promotes identifying and correcting system deficiencies before they affect combat capability | Reliability and Maintainability. |
Which category of Deficiency Report should you submit if the equipment has a deficiency that if uncorrected, may cause major loss or damage to equipment and no workaround is known? | 1B |
Which Maintenance Group agency provides technical assistance for Deficiency Reports to work center supervisors | Quality Assurance |
Which of the following is used to assign responsibilities, direct actions, and prescribe procedures within a subordinate function (i.e., a staff office, a branch, a squadron, etc.)? a | Operating instructions. |
When Operating Instructions (OI) apply to multiple groups, they should be published as | wing OIs |
Which AFTO IMT is used to maintain a permanent history of significant maintenance actions on end-items of equipment? a | 95 |
Printed copies of the AFTO IMT 95 are not required to accompany end items upon transfer | to/from locations that have access to the necessary maintenance information systems to retrieve the historical information |
What AFTO IMT is used to document accumulated cycles, operating time, and maintenance history, as well as pertinent manufacturing data for jet engine turbine wheels? | . 95 |
Which (IMDS-CDB) subsystem provides the capability to track engines and their components for time-changes and inspections and establishes and maintains the installed-on relationship between the engine and components? | Comprehensive Engine Management System |
Which Integrated Maintenance Database System-Central Database (IMDS-CDB) subsystem allows users to track maintenance actions and has both maintenance and supply data? | Maintenance Events. |
Which (IMDS-CDB) subsystem replaces the Maintenance Data Collection (MDC) system and provides maintenance personnel with the online capability to document, inquire, and produce retrievals of maintenance actions | Job Data Documentation |
Who guides the overall Data Integrity Team process and ensures the data provided to maintenance managers and supervision is meaningful and factual? | Maintenance Management Analysis. |
In addition to being familiar with the unit’s assigned weapon system(s), squadron representatives for the Data Integrity Team must be at least | a 5-level |
What provides a measurement of unit performance and capability? | Metrics |
What are the two most common types of primary maintenance metric indicators? | Leading and lagging |
Which primary maintenance metric indictor shows problems first, as they directly impact maintenance’s capability to provide resources to execute the mission? | Leading. |
Which primary maintenance metric indictor shows and follows firmly established trends? | Lagging |
Which maintenance repair priority is designated only for aircraft that are on alert status or aircraft that are supporting the war plan or national emergency missions? | 1. |