Symptoms
Service Method Binding Getting Lost after editing a smartObject in K2 Designer
Diagnoses
There are 2 bugs here
1) K2 Designer doesn't have the ability to add Service Method links (Feature)
2) K2 Designer deployments remove the Service method links created by other designers (BUG)
Resolution
This is fixed in the FEB CU 2017 Latest fix Pack. Note that FP has dependency on FEB CU 2017