Modeling and application of maintenance bill of materials for complex equipment

In the industrial engineering, the maintenance and logistics support process is one of the key factors for the performance of equipment. Bill of materials (BOM) describes all the components in product and internal hierarchal relationships as a structured tree. In order to gain all required maintenance information for complex equipment which is complex, the modeling and the application of maintenance BOM are introduced in this paper. Because of the simple structure and the wide function, IDEF0 is presented to build the model of maintenance BOM. The modeling approach can gather the maintenance information conveniently based on other BOMs, and applications of maintenance BOM are widely, particularly, in maintenance and inventory management.