What is Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD)?

 

Our Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) Software-as-Service (SaaS) gives you the power to optimize your building’s performance and continuously improve it. Our automated FDD feature pinpoints where faults are occurring within your facility, allowing you to take resolving action immediately and oftentimes remotely, saving you time and valuable resources.

Smart Prioritization

Facility management teams are expected to maintain their buildings in top shape. Distinguishing what’s important from what’s urgent is a challenge, especially when there are hundreds of moving parts. Kaizen FDD allows you to prioritize your building operations through interactive dashboards and performance metrics with multiple prioritization categories, including potential savings, urgency, and energy and comfort impacts.

Actionable System Analytics

For portfolio-level reporting, executive summaries of building performance are typically sufficient. At the building-level however, more granular detail is needed. Kaizen FDD provides system-centric reporting with fault prioritization, outcome-based system performance metrics (KPIs), and an actionable Insight management portal with historical activity tracking, essential features designed to empower facility management with a proactive maintenance strategy.

Data-driven Operations

Having the right information at the right time is crucial to facility operations. However, a real challenge exists when the amount of data to sift through is overwhelming. Kaizen FDD’s powerful faulting engine combined with user-friendly block-programming logic rules allows facility personnel to unlock a data-driven decision-making process and continuously analyze their building’s systems. Pre-built logic rules, including the NIST APAR set, are available for use from CopperTree’s community library.

How can Kaizen FDD help you?

Our Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) feature identifies opportunities for Building Automation System (BAS) optimization, such as:

HVAC output not matching room occupancy

Predicting future consumption spikes

Identifying specific equipment and systems that need servicing, repair or replacement

Finding systems which could be more efficient with updated controls strategies and sequences

Modelling the effects and ROI of potential energy conservation measures, renovations, repairs and retrofits