APL Scheduler

Maintenance and breakdowns

What you will learn

Record actual downtime and review production impact.

Worked example

A breakdown from 13:15 to 18:15 interrupts started work: check the executed segment and remaining work after downtime or on an alternative.

From data to result

  1. 1Asset
  2. 2Intervention
  3. 3Downtime
  4. 4Simulation

Link the asset to the correct work centre or resource and specify whether work stops production. An active breakdown blocks capacity during its dates; future maintenance is shown as upcoming, not as a current fault. After saving an impacting change, review the simulation: executed work is retained up to the stoppage and only the remainder moves after it or to a valid alternative.

Maintenance and breakdowns
  1. 1
    Identify the affected asset or capacity. Create the breakdown or work order with description, status and expected dates; check whether it blocks production.
  2. 2
    For a schedule-affecting change, accept the planner and review the simulation. A stoppage may preserve executed work and reschedule the remainder after the stop or on a compatible alternative.
  3. 3
    Distinguish an active breakdown from future maintenance. Future work does not mean the machine is down now.
  4. 4
    After intervention, update status and actual dates. Review freed capacity in a proposal before publishing; do not delete evidence of real downtime.

Visual walkthrough

Visual walkthroughDownload video
Real interface in Spanish with fictional data. Highlights show where to look. No writes, sends or engine calculations are executed. Videos have no audio. Adjacent explanations and steps describe the procedure.
  1. 0:00 · Open maintenance orders.
  2. 0:06 · Open OM-DEMO-001.
  3. 0:12 · Check asset, dates and production stop. Reading does not start a simulation.

Before you finish

The asset matches the capacity, dates and stop flag are correct and the proposal does not work through downtime.

Common questions

An option is missing or I cannot edit

Check active company, licence, permissions and integration-managed fields. Do not use a direct URL to bypass restrictions.

I cannot find records

Clear filters and check page, dates and company. There may be no accessible data; do not create duplicates to test.

I saved but cannot see the expected effect

Reopen the record and verify. Saving data does not publish a required simulation. Check whether the first write succeeded before repeating it.

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