Transform Your Building Operations with Fault Detection & Diagnostics (FDD)
Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) is an advanced building technology that serves as your facility's central nervous system. By continuously analyzing data from your building automation system (BAS), fault detection and diagnostics identifies equipment issues, operational inefficiencies, and energy waste—often before they impact occupant comfort or your bottom line.
The Systemic Approach to Building Performance
Modern building infrastructure represents a complex network of interconnected systems, each generating thousands of data points across multiple operational parameters. Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) serves as the cognitive layer that transforms this data ecosystem into actionable intelligence.
Unlock Your Building's Full Potential with Clockworks Analytics
In today's complex building environments, operational excellence demands more than just monitoring—it requires intelligent, automated diagnostics that drive action. Clockworks Analytics delivers industry-leading fault detection and diagnostic capabilities that transform raw building data into actionable insights, helping you maximize efficiency, reduce costs, and optimize performance across your entire portfolio.
How FDD Empowers Your Team
Real-Time Monitoring
Catch equipment issues before they become problems. FDD serves as a analytics engine to continuously monitor your building systems, detecting subtle performance changes that indicate developing issues. Know what needs attention today to prevent costly failures tomorrow.
Proactive Maintenance
Say goodbye to reactive repairs. FDD transforms your maintenance strategy by automatically identifying and prioritizing equipment issues. Your team can now focus on preventing problems rather than rushing to fix them, extending equipment life and reducing emergency calls.
Energy Optimization
Stop throwing money away on inefficient operations. An FDD solution can identify hidden energy waste across your building systems, quantifying the cost impact of each issue. Armed with this intelligence, you can prioritize fixes that deliver the biggest savings to your bottom line.
Team Efficiency
Give your staff superpowers. Get clear, actionable insights that help your team work smarter, not harder using FDD. Automated root cause analysis eliminates time-consuming investigations, while prioritized recommendations ensure resources are focused where they matter most.
Stop Wasting Time and Money on Reactive Building Maintenance
The cost of reactive maintenance adds up quickly. Transform your building operations with the industry's most powerful diagnostic intelligence platform. Clockworks Analytics helps you catch equipment problems before they impact your bottom line.
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Your Building Is Talking. Are You Listening?
Every day, your building generates thousands of data points about its performance. But without advanced diagnostic capabilities, you're missing critical insights that could save millions in operational costs. Clockworks Analytics turns your building data into actionable intelligence, helping you prevent equipment failures, reduce energy waste, and optimize maintenance resources.
Trusted by Industry Leaders
Major healthcare networks, universities, life science manufacturers and commercial real estate portfolios trust Clockworks Analytics to optimize over 500 million square feet of building space worldwide. Our clients have documented more than $60 million in annual avoidable costs as a result of improved efficiency and reduced maintenance costs.
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Stop Reacting. Start Predicting.
Traditional building management means waiting for problems to occur. Clockworks Analytics changes the game by identifying issues before they become costly failures. Our advanced diagnostic engine understands the complex relationships between building systems, providing insights that even seasoned engineers might miss.
The Clockworks FDD Advantage
While traditional rule-based FDD platforms rely on simplistic if-then logic and static thresholds, Clockworks Analytics has revolutionized building diagnostics through our advanced physics-based diagnostic engine. Unlike conventional solutions that generate floods of basic alarms, our platform understands the complex relationships between mechanical systems, analyzing thousands of data points to identify true root causes.
FDD Information Model
The Information Model behind the FDD platform helps create a digital replica of each building system and equipment and serves as the ‘input’ for the algorithms.
Clockworks Analytics creates a digital replica of each piece of equipment and utilizes a standard Information Model across the entire Clockworks platform. The Information Model also incorporates information contained within written control sequences, equipment schedules, and calculated points.
Rule-Based FDD solutions primarily rely on “tags” to uniquely describe each equipment and data point. Users must determine the tagging convention they intend to use and ensure it is consistently applied to all equipment.
Custom Rules vs. Scalable Global Algorithms
Consistency is paramount when implementing FDD across multiple buildings with varying BMS and equipment types.
Clockworks Analytics utilizes expert system logic to apply a consistent analysis to each equipment type regardless of the combination of points or configuration of the equipment.
Rule-Based FDD solutions must ‘match’ each rule to the unique combination of points found within the building. When things don’t match, the rule must be modified or a new rule created to accommodate each unique equipment configuration.
Automated Prioritization and Cost Impacts
Identifying performance issues is an important component of any FDD tool; however, being able to automatically prioritize and act on the identified issues is what separates a successful FDD program from those that turn into another ignored list of to-dos.
Clockworks Analytics leverages advanced energy modeling techniques to automatically calculate projected energy savings when energy efficiencies are detected.
Rule-Based FDD solutions can incorporate rule-of-thumb energy costs into each rule. This method can easily lead to double-counting of savings without careful management of the fault rules.
