The e-BOM to m-BOM transformation for building management systems

Abstract

The need of building process industrialization has seed up the use of new Information Technologies to enhance the productivity and quality of building projects. In particular, the use of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) assets and real time follow-up based on the Cyber Physical System paradigm could be a source of valuable data to support planning and monitoring activities throughout the building life cycle. In the context of process industrialization one challenging issue is the transformation of design data into manufacturing data. The main contribution of this paper is the automatic transformation from engineering bills of material (e-BOM) to manufacturing (m-BOM) ones based on routing sheets and resources’ availability status. Illustrated by an actual prefabricated building case study, a methodological approach to dynamically adapt the e-BOM to m-BOM supported by a generic BOM and its implementation architecture are proposed.