During a recent business trip, I was sitting in an airport café with some colleagues while discussing how to build and manage BOMs.  We got some strange looks.  Then I mentioned something about exploding the BOM.  More strange looks.  Nervous glances.  Finally, we decided it was best to avoid using the B word in airports.  But since you probably know a thing or two about BOMs and PLM (otherwise, uh,  why are you reading this?), I'll assume you know what I'm talking about and I can use my normal Nerd-speak of PLM acronyms.  (My nickname around the office is "Big Nerd", because I'm six foot four and I think BOMs are interesting).