Advanced Integrated Maintenance Support System (AIMSS™)

The AIMSS authoring tool set puts all the technical information you need to maintain complex systems at your fingertips.

The Advanced Integrated Maintenance Support System (AIMSS) is an interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) authoring tool set. AIMSS uses state-of-the-art object database technology that enables you to generate, display, store, retrieve, automate, and deliver Class 4 and 5 IETM formatted projects from your workstation or personal computer.
AIMSS is Windows© based software. Its graphical authoring environment requires no programming skills.

The robust object-oriented AIMSS has the power and capacity to manage and maintain data for multiple systems. Its enhanced import/export capabilities efficiently import legacy data, and graphic compression and database move/copy features allow easy data manipulation. AIMSS supports a full complement of dialogs and processes that can be embedded in interactive procedures as hypertext and graphic "hot spots" to provide rapid access to related information in the database.

One of the most powerful features of AIMSS is its fault-isolation capability. Troubleshooting information is presented step-by-step, as in a traditional fault-logic diagram. Each step has detailed instructions and a question that requires a yes/no or typed response. Using these answers and mathematical operations, AIMSS leads you directly to the next appropriate step. Troubleshooting is further simplified by a dynamic data exchange protocol that allows AIMSS to initiate a diagnostic test, receive the result, and automatically navigate to the appropriate troubleshooting information. To further assist you with problem resolution, AIMSS can directly link to job aids and computer-based training, allowing you to practice difficult tasks before performing them on your systems.

AIMSS is being used to produce Class 4 IETMs for several Department of Defense programs, including SURTASS, Sentinel, Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), AEGIS, Battle Force Tactical Trainer (BFTT), Fox, and Paladin.

Features and Benefits

The AIMSS authoring tool set creates interactive electronic technical manuals. Its graphical user interface and integrated run-time allow technical writers to readily visualize what they are actually and conceptually developing. With AIMSS's visual point-and-click building block approach to information organization, writers can easily construct powerful interactive procedures with embedded calculation, comparison, and branching logic.

The AIMSS authoring tool set was designed and developed by technical writers for technical writers. This means that complex interactive electronic technical manual (IETM) functions can be easily constructed without scripting, programming, or native standard generalized markup language (SGML) tagging. Some of the major features of the AIMSS authoring tool set are:

>Graphical design and layout of object-oriented hierarchical database structures

>Shared object library for reusable text, graphic, audio, and video objects

>Predefined window layouts for text, graphics, warnings, cautions, notes, dialogs, tables, and parts information

>Point-and-click hyper linking to text, graphic, audio, video, table, and parts information objects

>Alternate frames for systems and equipment with multiple versions or variants

>Association support to automatically link all information related to a single item

>Full feature tables with hyper linking from individual cells

>Part information databases with definable queries

>SGML import and export utilities

>Compliant with MIL-PRF-87268, MIL-PRF-87269, and HyTime

>With each copy of the AIMSS authoring tool set (Product Number: IETMTS-3X), you will receive the following:

>AIMSS Authoring Tool Set (V3.X) software on CD-ROM

>AIMSS Run-time (V3.X) software on CD-ROM

>AIMSS Author's Guide

>AIMSS User's Guide

>License to reproduce and distribute the AIMSS Run-time software at no additional charge

>License to reproduce and distribute the AIMSS User's Guide at no additional charge