Patent Document ID: 20150262124
Application ID: 14213113
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A bill of material (BOM) management system using artificial intelligence for processing a product data or configuration change of a product between a plurality of functional domains, comprising: a plurality of product elements associated with a BOM, each product element defining at least one assembly, each assembly having at least one component of a corresponding assembly, both the assembly and the component being listed in the BOM as a product element of the product; a dynamic link configured for mapping and connecting each component of the assembly to another component of the assembly in a different functional domain; a semantic network having a product knowledge configured for interacting with the BOM via a network, the product knowledge having information about the dynamic link; and a Decompose/Recompose/Multi-arrange (DRM) process module configured for managing product configuration information of the product by performing, using a computer processor, a decompose process, a recompose process, and a multi-arrange process, wherein the decompose process performs grouping of the product elements based on the product knowledge of the semantic network, the recompose process performs regrouping of the product elements in a selected domain context, and the multi-arrange process performs rearranging of the product elements to facilitate a different product structure of the BOM in the different functional domain.