The Facility Assessment Inspection Module (FAIM) is a decision support system to improve facility maintenance and repair management at Marine Corps installations. FAIM provides scheduling, inspection man-hours, and cost data for conducting assessment inspections for all types of facilities.  This data will assist decision makers in the planning, programming, and scheduling of facility assessment inspections across a multi-year time horizon.

OBJECTIVE
Overall objectives of the FAIM include:

Provide overall installation facilities assessment inspection data to include:

• Scheduling
• Labor man-hours
• Costs

The installation facilities assessment inspection data will be provided in the following detail:

• By Level of Effort (LoE)
• By Level of Maintenance Classification (LMC)
• By Fiscal Year (FY)
• By Fiscal Quarter
• By Month
• By Facility Class (Xxxxx)
• By Category Group (XXxxx)
• By Basic Category (XXXxx)
• By Facility Analysis Category (XXXXx)
• By Category Code (XXXXX)
• By Facility Number
• By Facilities Unit of Measure (UM)
• By Labor Man-Hours (MHs)
• By Labor Discipline
• By In-House Costs
• By Commercial Costs

CURRENT CONFIGURATION
The Facility Assessment Inspection Module design utilizes a multi-tier client/server architecture.  The FAIM Client provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to quickly request information.  All FAIM Client communication is encrypted using SSL and occurs via the Internet to the FAIM Application Server using minimal TCP/IP network resources.  The middle tier FAIM Application Server provides queuing, scheduling, and application execution between FAIM Clients and the backend FAIM Database Server.  The FAIM Database Server running Microsoft SQL Server provides query results, data staging, and data analysis.  The FAIM client/server architecture provides performance and scalability to FAIM users with reduced network traffic and robust security.  The FAIM Client supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.