Chapter 2 Technical Administration

CHAPTER 2 TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION Technical administration is basically the filling out of paperwork required to complete a task. Whether the task is maintenance or repair in nature, it is not fully completed until all documenting paperwork has been finalized. You, as the technician, are responsible for ensuring that all paperwork is completed for each task you are assigned. THE MAINTENANCE DATA SYSTEM (MDS) The Maintenance Data System (MDS) provides a means of recording maintenance actions in substantial detail. This allows a variety of information concerning these actions and the performance of equipment involved to be retrieved. (In older documents, you may see the system refereed to as MDCS.) One of the major objectives of the MDS is to provide the capability of reporting configuration changes. In the following paragraphs, we will describe MDS subsystems that you will use frequently. MAINTENANCE DATA SYSTEM (MDS) FORMS In the following paragraphs we will briefly discuss the MDS forms that you as an ET are most likely to come across in your daily routine. For more in-depth information on the MDS forms, we recommend that you read chapter 9 of OPNAVINST 4790.4, Ships’ Maintenance and Material Management (3-M) Manual. Because the supply forms associated with the 2-1 MDS have been discussed in other training manuals, we will not cover them here. Ship’s Maintenance Action Form-OPNAV 4790/2K This form, shown in figure 2-1, is the primary maintenance form. It is used by maintenance personnel to report (1) deferred maintenance actions and (2) all completed maintenance actions (including previously deferred actions). The OPNAV 47902K contains six sections that require entries, depending on the type of maintenance action being reported. The form is printed on paper that does not require carbon to make multiple copies. Whenever you make an entry on this form, print the information, using all CAPITAL letters. Be sure the information is legible and inserted within the “tic” marks. If you make an error, line it out using a single line and enter the correct information. Supplemental Form-OPNAV 4790/2L This form, illustrated in figure 2-2, is used to provide amplifying information for a maintenance action reported on a 2K form. For example, you may include on the 2L information from drawings, listings, associated parts placement, part labels, and the like, for use by a repair activity. When you need to use an OPNAV 4790/2L OPNAV 4790/2K, enter in block 35 of the notation “2L USED.” Maintenance Planning and Estimating Form-OPNAV 4790/2P with an 2K the This form is used with an OPNAV 4790/2K that defers maintenance to be done by an IMA under the Intermediate Maintenance Management System (IMMS). It provides information necessary to allow screening and planning to be done in detail. Figure 2-3 illustrates this form as it may appear when planning and scheduling have been completed by a repair activity. Chapter 12 of OPNAVINST 4790.4B contains detailed information on the use of the form.