Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design

Transformation Model and Implementation from

EBOM to MBOM for MRO System
Jian-bo Lai, Ming-rui Wang, Min Liu·, Jun-weiYan
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University
Shanghai 200092, China
[email protected]

Abstract-In order to solve the transformation problem of engineering BOM to manufacturing BOM without resolving
ROM from engineering ROM to maintenance ROM for MRO the transformation between engineering BOM and
system (MRO, Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul), a formal maintenance BOM[7]. WANG Ji-tian and SI Shu-bin solve
transformation model of ROM view is established. In this model, the maintenance BOM problems for complex equipments by
the intermediate component, inherit component, virtual
building the network structure model of maintenance BOM
component are defined on the specific maintenance
based on the maintenance structural factors information
management domain, and the transformation process from
[2].Changho Lee, Choon Seong Leem and Inhyuck Hwang
engineering ROM to maintenance ROM is discussed through
feature recognition methods and rules. Last, the proposed discussed rules of transformation based on clear analysis of
model is applied to MRO system for a steel manufacturing the relationship between engineering BOM and manufacturing
enterprise, which indicates that this methodology is effectual to BOM.Zhang Shuai, Sun Shu-dong, Cai Zhi-qiang, Dong Wei
the problem. described the characteristics of maintenance BOM and put
forward the integration method based on XML
Keywords-Engineering ROM, Maintenance ROM, MRO,
technologies ,but only focused on maintenance BOM without
Transformation
engineering BOM or the process of converting engineering

I. INTRODUCTION BOM to maintenance BOM.

Nowadays, enterprises are confronted by challenges

III. METHOD FOR BOM TRANSFORMATION
arising from continuous innovations, global collaborations,
and complex risk management. Companies strive for A. An overview of BOM
technological innovation and management methods to
improve production efficiency and reduce production costs. In BOM (bill of materials) is the product structure data file

the steel industry, a variety of large-scale steel-making which computer can recognize and links the all business

equipment need maintenance, repair and overhaul processes of enterprise. BOM forms the fundamental data of

(Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, MRO) for ensuring the the PDM / MRO system and other information systems, and

production process. MRO management system provides the structure of BOM have a significant impact on the system

management for these devices. performance. Therefore, it is very important to establish a

reasonable and valid BOM.
The core technologies of MRO services include
workflow management, document management plans, BOM BOM view, such as EBOM (Engineering BOM) in the

(Bill Of Material) management, query summary, message PDM system, MBOM (Maintenance BOM) in the MRO

service, change management techniques. BOM management system, shows different views between PDM and MRO
systems.
is what we mainly focus on. Maintenance activity as a
corresponding of a physical part, so the BOM is the EBOM is used to represent the structure of the product
organization structure of serving object. And you can add when designed, production design department to an enterprise
some kind files to the part in BOM to record the content of use EBOM to manage the bill of materials forming a new
the maintenance activity. Through the construction of BOM, production. EBOM extracts relevant data from the design
we can organize and manage MRO business data BOM drawings, including product name, product structure and the
effectively and clearly. relationship between parts of the assembly properties.

Maintenance BOM is applied for the management of

II. LITERATURE REVIEW equipment maintenance by the maintenance department to an
enterprise. MBOM is mainly based on the EBOM; it mainly
The existing studies on maintenance transformation are
reflects the products and equipment maintenance business
less, and the system has not perfectly formed. LID Xiao-bing,
logic. However, MBOM is more complex than EBOM,
WANG wan-lei, XING Ying-jie developed a method of BOM
because the relationships of equipment maintenance processes
transformation based on feature identification to transform

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should be added up to the structural relationship of the figures denote the number of the sub-assemblies or sub-parts.
materials. According to actual management activity, Maintenance
management is divided into part management and structure
Maintenance BOM in the MRO system is divided into
management. The part need to management is divided into
Neutral BOM and Physical BOM. Neutral BOM is the core
two categories:
structure for organizing information and the maintenance of
• No-track part
common knowledge. Neutral BOM reflects the common
Some parts that need not to be tracked in MRO processes
pieces of equipment structure, and the same model or the
are called No-track parts. Historical data with which is not
same batch of pieces of equipment can share a Neutral BOM.
recorded. These parts will be removed when in MBOM
Physical BOM is a true reflection of the real equipment, used
structure. Therefore, they are all classified as virtual
to describe a piece of physical devices in a specific real-time
components. For example, Fig.1 B (1) and F (2) are Virtual
configuration data and metadata in a single tree type BOM
components.
structure for organizing repair data of the specific piece of
• Track Part
equipment. We only need to determine the Neutral BOM, and
Some parts that need to be tracked are called track parts
then to generate specific models and specific batch Physical
by a serial numbers about historical data, including serial
BOM by the Neutral BOM, so MBOM we discussed here is
number, batch number, total quantity .when MBOM is
also Neutral BOM.
constructed, and the track parts will be generated according to
Thereby, there is a fundamental difference between the maintenance processes. The data files attached to the tack
EBOM and MBOM: EBOM is a technical document, and parts are saved in MRO system, so the inheritance
MBOM is a management document. In addition, the hierarchy components and intermediate components belong to track
of parts and components in MBOM must be the reflection of parts. For instance, In Fig. 2, all the parts of MBOM is track
the actual maintenance processes, but not necessarily in parts.
EBOM. • Structure management
The assembly relationship in MBOM was mainly based
on the combining maintenance processes and assembly
B. BOM view model relationships in EBOM. For instance, some parts, when out of
The parts exist both in MBOM and EBOM, known as the work, having no ability to repair, they have to be sent out to a
inherited components. In the actual assembly, first thing to do special enterprise to repair, it is owing to convenience that
is assembling the lower sub-assembly parts of a machine grouping some related parts together to compose a new virtual
before completing assembly of parts. When assembling the component, and then sent the new virtual component out to
sub-assembly parts, parts not appearing in EBOM, appearing repair. Figure 2 shows a virtual component H after removing
in MBOM only is called intermediate components. Some some No-track parts and rebuilding the hierarchy of parts
assemblies in EBOM are removed when in MBOM; these according to EBOM.
assemblies are called virtual components. And then, the FigJ
shows the EBOM with three levels and Fig.2 shows MBOM
based on the EBOM. Components are represented by the letter;

virtual part Intermediate part

FigJ EBOM

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 Intennediate part

Inherited part

Fig.2 MBOM

C. Transform EBOM into MBOM using feature recognition p�

J

methods and rules

In order to accurately define the mapping between
c� E eM, c�. E e M;
EBOM and MBOM function, mathematical description of the
M M 1
two BOM respectively is needed. According to the nij nkj, nki =

characteristics of EBOM and MBOM, First of all, defming the

In above equation, G1j E eM and G:i E eM as the
(A ,e ,N )
EBOM: EBOM with a triplet to represent.
new created assembly relationship between PiM and P jM ,
Where A is the set of the component Pi (is 1, 2, 3 ...);
PiMand PiM' respectIveIy.
=

Gij
.

e is the set of the component assembly relationship for

Similarly, fl the transfonnation rules for the
the assembly relationship of the component Pi and the
inherited components and fv the transfonnation rules for
component P j; N is the set of the number of the virtual components can be given. Through the above

assembly nij, nij n(cij) means that a parent part of the

three rules, transfonnation function fonnula from EBOM to

f (t;r (0 (EEOM) ) ) .
=

MBOM
assembly relationship Gij is fonned by nij Sub-components.
MBOM:
M
=

The establishment of MBOM model mainly based on

And then defining the MBOM: MBOM with a triplet the business logic of Maintenance, The compositions of

(AM,eM ,NM) to represent. various special components need maintenance staff to define.
The main task are removing some No-track parts, rebuilding
Based on the above definition, C1 is the set of all the the hierarchy of parts according to EBOM and composing a

inherited components. Cv is the set of all the virtual new virtual component. Hence, those works need for
human-computer interaction to complete.
components. C is the a set of all the intermediate
M IV. A CASE STUDY
components. And now, the transfonnation using feature

recognition methods and rules are created. For example, f In this section, an empirical case will be used to
M illustrate the feasibility of the proposed methods and rules.
the transfonnation rules for the intennediate components.
Nowadays, more and more iron and steel companies use
Let pM be the intennediate component, and then add the MRO system to manage all kinds of manufacturing

assembly relationship Gij into MBOM. The mathematical

equipments to ensure the production. Fig.3 shows the EBOM
of Continuous casting machines of a steel company of china,

description: \;jp1 E e ' pJ as the lower sub-parts of

the MRO Support Platfonn is the Teamcenter 8 of
M SIEMENS. The EBOM is from CAD design drawings.
Pi' P as the superior parent of P j then there exists,
M k Through a large number of pre-survey to get the following
model, Fig.4 shows the MBOM structure.

It can be found that, in EBOM, the Long Side Water

Box, the Short Side Water Box and the Copper Plate
Assembly are virtual components, and they are removed in
MBOM .the Liner also not appear in MBOM is No-track

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part .Fig.4 shows that the Long Side Parts is intennediate we should attach some maintenance files to the neutral
components through grouping Long Side Water Box, Long structure. Those files like Bitmap files to record the concrete
Side Copper Plate, Long Side Rollo Roller together, so is the product or maintenance plan files could help maintenance
Short Side Parts. personal to save time in founding the fault. In addition, all
the part must be assigned the Serial Number and
Fig.5 is the Neutral BOM of 4CC (the NO.4 continuous
Manufacture'ID at least. And we can attach some other
casting line) in Teamcenter 8.we can see all the parts in the
properties to physical part according to what you need.
Neutral BOM are traceable and serialized.
Through setting up the BOM, the company does the
Fig.6 shows the As-Maintained BOM of 4CC in
MRO service work orderly and further optimizes the
Teamcenter 8.it is clear that the two structures have the same
allocation of resources.
parts and hierarchy of parts.As the parts in the as-maintained
BOM represent the physical Item (part or parts), so before
generating the as-maintained structure from neutral structure,

Left Frame

Right Frame

Long Side Water Assembly

Long One-third Roll

Short Side Water Assembly

Copper Plate Assembly

Hydraulic Cylinder

Fig. 3 EBOM for some parts of the continuous casting line

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 Left Frame

Right Frame
Right Side Back Plate

Long Side Water Box

Long Side Parts [ Long side copper plate

Long One-third Roll
Long Side Rollo Roller r------l

Short One-third Roll

Short Side Water Box

Short Side Parts Short side copper plate

Short Side Rollo Roller

Stirrer Fastening Assembly

Hydraulic Cylinder

Fig. 4 MBOM for some parts of the continuous casting line

Neutral Structw-e

002927/A, l-MD (View) Item each

hydralllic cylinder 002933/A: l-hydraulic: cylinder Item each
left frame 002928/A: 1-left. frame (View) Item each
cone-width-modulated device 002934/A: 1-cone-width-modulated dey. Item each
gear box 002936/A: l-gear box Item each
left. side back plate 002935/A: 1-left. side back plate Item each
long side parts 002930/A: i-long side parts (View) Item each
002939/A: i-long side copper plate Item each
short side rollo roller 002940/A: i-long side rollo roller Item each
long one-third roll 002941/A: i-long one-third roll Item each
short one-third roll 002942/A: 1-short one-third roll Item each
002938/A:i-long side water box Item each
right fr&llle 002929/A:i-right fr&llle (View) Item each
cone-width-modulated device 0029341A:i-cane-width-modulated dev. Item each
gear box 00293B/A:i-gear box Item each
right side back plate 002937/A:i-right side back plate Item each
short side parts 00293i/A:i-short side parts (View) Item each
short side copper plate 002939/A:i-long side copper plate Item each
short side rollo roller 002940/A:i-long side rolla roller Item each
long one-third roll 00294i/A:i-long one-third roll Item each
short one-third roll 002942/A:i-short one-third roll Item each
short side water box 002938/A:i-long side water box Item each
stirrer fastening assembly 002932/A:i-stirrer fastening assembly Item each

Fig. 5 Neutral BOM of 4CC in Teamcenter 8

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� � MD 002927/102-< Physical Part 002927 Preferred 102 102 002927 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
$ af; Ion;: side parts 002930/103-< Physical Part 002930 Preferred 103 103 002930 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
i" ..� long side water box
..

002938/110-< Physical Part 002938 Preferred 110 110 002938 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
B" � Ion; side rollo r. . 002940/11 I-A Physical Part 002940 Preferred 111 111 002940 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
: ;""� short one-thir 002942/465-< Physical Part 002942 Preferred 465 2 002942 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
i .... � long one-third. 00294.1/49S-A Physical Part 00294.1 Preferred 498 002941 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
:. � long side copper 002939/112-< Physical Part. 002939 Preferred 112 112 002939 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
f·· · af; stirrer fast.ening as. 002932/104-< Physical Part. 002932 Preferred 104 104 002932 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
:.... J; hydr&1.llic cylinder 002933/105-< Physical Part. 002933 Preferred 105 105 002933 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
!$I..J; right. fr&me 002929/105-< Physical Part. 002929 Preferred 106 106 002929 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
S··� cone-widt.h-mod1.lla 002934/8-< Physical Part. 002934 Preferred 8 8 002934 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
: .... � gear box 002936/498-< Physical Part. 002936 Preferred 498 002936 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
: � right. side back p 002937/87-< Physical Part. 002937 Preferred 87 002937 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
$ af;
.. short. side parts 002931/107-A Physical Part. 002931 Preferred 107 107 002931 12-Feb-2010. 12-Feb-201
S·· � short. side rollo 002940/3-< Physical Part. 002940 Preferred 3 3 002940 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
: �... af; short. one-t.hir. 002942/4-A Physical Part. 002942 Preferred 002942 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
: ,. . J; long one-t.hird 002941/4-< Physical Part. 002941 Preferred 002941 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
:.... � short. side copper. 002939/3-A Physical Part. 002939 Preferred 002939 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
i .& short. side wat.er box 002938/149-A Physical Part. 002938 Preferred 149 002938 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
a·· J; left. fr&me 002928/108-A Physical Part. 002928 Preferred 108 108 002928 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
S·· a.S cone-widt.h-mod1.lla. 002934/5-A Physical Part. 002934 Preferred 5 5 002934 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
: :... af; gear box 002936/7-A Physical Part. 002936 Preferred 002936 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201
: ·aZ left. side back plat.e 002935/6-A Physical Part. 002935 Preferred 002935 12-Feb-2010 12-Feb-201

Fig. 6 As-Maintained BOM of 4CC in Teamcenter 8

[6] HE Xiang-jun, HE shen, Teaching application program of the method

V. CONCLUSIONS which transforming design BOM to manufacturing BOM,
Manufacturing Automation [J], Vol.31 No.10, 2009
This paper discusses the methods and rules of [7] LID Xiao-bing, WANG wan-lei, XING Ying-jie, YUAN Chang-feng,
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Nov.2005
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EBOM, a transformation model is built for the steel casting manufacturing BOM, Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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[9] REN Gen-quan, ZHANG Li, WANG Jian-min, Research on the Data
How to divide the maintenance equipment into No-track Provenance Tracing of BOM in the Use and Maintenance Phase of
part and Track part is according to the specific maintenance Product, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems[J] , Vol.
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business logic, the definition of No-track part and Track part
[10] PENG Yong, GONG Jian-xing, HUANG Ke-di, Research on
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Apr.2011
[II] HU Hao, WANG Yin, LUO Hua-wu, LI Feng, The dynamic generating
The research work presented in this paper was partially
technique of maintenance bill of material adaptation for equipment
supported by the NSFC (Grant No. 61073090, 61173015 and adjustment, Manufacturing Automation [J], Vo1.32 No.II, 2011
71090404) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the
Central Universities.

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