A Maintenance resource break is the indication for Maintenance Planning Board that certain persons or tools are not available for scheduling due to various reasons. Tools could be unavailable due to calibration, or service upon them, or any regular or accidental service required to perform upon them. Another reason could be that they are out of service or broken. For persons sudden absence from work or unavailability to perform work order or PM action occurrence activities due to other assignments could indicate by maintenance resource break.
When you set up a site to use the Maintenance Planning Board (MPB) and load work orders or PM action occurrences to it, all maintenance resource breaks on the site that are in Unscheduled or Scheduled state are also loaded.
A work resource break can be created via Maintenance Resource Break page. The break can be saved back to the database once it is scheduled.
A maintenance resource break which was created using the Maintenance Resource Break window can be loaded to the Maintenance Planning Board once it attains Unscheduled status. Initially it will be in Resource Assigned state in the Maintenance Planning Board, where it can be scheduled and saved back to the database. It then reaches the Scheduled state which indicate as Firm Planned in MPB.
A maintenance resource break will book the time on tool or person as unavailable for scheduling within Maintenance Planning Board. This means that during the time where person or tool is scheduled as resource break, the other work task or PM work list will not be scheduled.