Research on static service BOM transformation for complex products

With the trend toward servitization and the development of big data, host manufacturers of complex products are exploring methods to effectively organize product data for providing satisfactory maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service. With the motivation, this research develops a service bill-of-material (SBOM) from a product life cycle perspective. We propose a generic-SBOM (G-SBOM) to manage common information of one product type or batched products and an individual-SBOM (I-SBOM) to administrate instance products, together constituting a static SBOM. The transformation processes from engineering BOM, manufacturing resume and purchased part information to SBOM are explained in detail and described in a mathematical model. The compound SBOM reduces data redundancy and meets the basic requirements of MRO service, such as position management and alternative parts management. At the same time, its formation process reflects product lifecycle data integration for complex products. Finally, this method is verified by a product example and realized in a prototype XBOM system for a high-speed train manufacturer enterprise in China.