The Planning Board for Maintenance (PB4M) is a regularly scheduled meeting of a ship's Maintenance Team to discuss shipwide maintenance issues. The TYCOM Maintenance Program Manager runs the meeting. Topics discussed include current and future planned off-ship and organizational maintenance, CSMP quality and accuracy, fiscal concerns, and operational schedules. The objective is to ensure clarity of intent for both the ship's maintenance efforts and shore infrastructure support. A minimum of one PB4M meeting per month is expected. The Ship's Maintenance Team, consisting of representatives from the ship's command, TYCOM, NSA, and LMA, is responsible for executing maintenance policies to ensure all work is completed.

1. Planning Board For Maintenance
Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual
Requirements Review

2. Reference
• Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual
– Volume II Part I Chapter 4
• 4.2.5 Planning Board for Maintenance
– Volume II Part II Chapter 1
• 1.2.2 Maintenance Team
– Volume VI Chapter 41
• 41.3.1 Management of Ship Maintenance
• 41.4 PLANNING BOARD FOR MAINTENANCE
• 41.5 BUSINESS RULES
• VI-41A-2

3. Planning Board For Maintenance (PB4M)
• What is it?
– A regularly scheduled meeting of the Ship’s Maintenance
Team to discuss ship wide maintenance issues.
• Who runs it?
– The TYCOM Maintenance Program Manager (MPM).
• What is covered?
– A review of current planned off-ship and organizational
maintenance
– CSMP quality and accuracy
– Future maintenance and modernization planning
– Fiscal Concerns

4. Planning Board For Maintenance
(PB4M)
• What’s the objective?
– To ensure clarity of intent for both the ship’s efforts and
the shore infrastructure with respect to total ship
maintenance, operational schedules, and other concerns
affecting ship material readiness.
• How often is it held?
– While the frequency of Planning Board for Maintenance
meetings may vary due to a ship's schedule, a minimum of
one meeting per month is expected.

5. Ship’s Maintenance Team
• Who’s on it?
– Ship’s Commanding Officer
– TYCOM MPM
– Ship’s Maintenance Manager
– NSA Representative
– LMA Representative
– MSMO Program Manager
• What is their responsibility?
– To execute the maintenance policies, directives and
regional business rules of the Fleet Commander, Platform
TYCOM and the RMC to ensure all maintenance is
validated, screened, brokered and completed

6. JFMM PB4M AGENDA
• Ship’s Schedule • Budgeting for Ship’s
• Management of Ship’s Maintenance
Maintenance • Logistics and Technical
– CASREPS Expertise
– Work candidates • Availability Coordination
returned to ship • New Issues
– Work candidates older • Current Metrics
than 180 days • Commanding Officer’s Issues
– Work candidates to be
passed to history
– CSMP/AWP Review
– Ship’s BAWP