CHAPTER 4
MAINTENANCE CONTROL AND PRODUCTION
CONTROL
The maintenance control or production control
office is the focal point of all aircraft and aeronautical
equipment maintenance actions within an aviation
maintenance activity. Maintenance control in
organizational maintenance activities (OMAs) and
production control in intermediate maintenance
activities (IMAs) have similar roles. Both coordinate
the work of shops with diverse skills to achieve a
common goal—keeping aircraft flyable.
MAINTENANCE CONTROL AND
PRODUCTION CONTROL TASKS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Identify the
function of maintenance control and
production control in the maintenance effort
and the levels of maintenance of each. Define
the purpose of Naval Aviation Logistics
Command Management Information System
(NALCOMIS).
As the nerve center of a maintenance activity,
maintenance control plans and schedules the workload
of the work centers. Maintenance control uses the
Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management
Information System (NALCOMIS) to schedule the
workload of work centers and divisions in the
maintenance department. NALCOMIS is an automated
management information system that provides Navy
aviation activities with the information to aid in the
day-to-day management of the maintenance effort of
assigned aircraft and equipment. The system provides
detailed procedures to enter, collect, process, store,
review, and report maintenance and flight data that are
required to manage the maintenance organization.
The maintenance material control officer (MMCO)
heads maintenance control. The MMCO is responsible
to the head of the maintenance department, the
maintenance officer (MO), for the overall maintenance
effort and material support of the maintenance
department.
The main tasks that are performed by maintenance
control include the following:
Coordinate and monitor the department
workload
Control the daily workload and assign work
priorities
Prepare the monthly maintenance plan (MMP)
Ensure compliance with the planned
maintenance system (PMS), related instructions,
and publications
Review NALCOMIS and maintenance data
reports (MDRs) to ensure effective use of
manpower and materials
Maintain aircraft logs and records, associated
equipment records, and weight and balance
records
Coordinate and monitor NALCOMIS in the
maintenance evolution
Maintain aircraft discrepancy books (ADBs)
The MMCO ensures accomplishment of
maintenance control functions through division
officers, maintenance chiefs, work center supervisors,
NALCOMIS, and AZs. If you are assigned to a
maintenance control, you may perform tasks in support
of these functions. One of your primary duties as a
maintenance controller should include maintenance
action form (MAF) initiation. To perform this task, you
should have an in-depth knowledge of aircraft
maintenance documentation procedures.
NOTE: Refer to the Naval Aviation Maintenance
Program (NAMP), OPNAVINST 4790.2, for detailed
information of the duties and responsibilities of
maintenance and production control.
The most important function of maintenance
control is to ensure that aircraft and equipment are
maintained in the highest state of material condition of
readiness. One program that is used to maintain aircraft
and equipment in high states of material condition of
readiness is the Planned Maintenance System (PMS).
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