The Building Automation System is the backbone of your facility.
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Regular planned maintenance and optimisation of the Building Automation System will help you meet your facility objectives and your business to:
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- Concentrate on core business
- Reduce energy costs
- Reduce operational costs
- Improve mechanical plant reliability
- Increase equipment asset life
- Improve comfort levels
- Stablise environmental conditions
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AE Smith will customise a strategic maintenance program that will compliment data gathered by the Building Automation System. This information will assist by highlighting facility deficiencies such as:
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- Ineffective Economy Mode operation
- Out of spec. temperature, humidity and pressure sensors
- Chiller and Boiler crossover
- Excessive/Repetitive master heating and cooling calls
- Chiller short cycling
- Plant start-up/shut-down
- Excessive mechanical plant and lighting runtime
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- Excessive system alarms generated from faulty software, hardware and/or critical monitoring points
- Default values/parameters in place due to offline points/processes
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Optimisation strategies include:
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- Enhacements to current control strategies and/or the introduction of alternative scenarios such as optimal start and supply air reset
- Analysing peak traffic reports of Access Control and Life systems to assess occupancy and un-occupancy times
- Refining system alarms, focusing on critical areas
- Runtime totalisation and analysis of major equipment
- Implementation of load/lag programs to assist with equipment wear distribution
- Investigate plant staggering start by implementing software programs
- Implementation of software programs to enable power usage monitoring, recording and documentation
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AE Smith can also provide Remote monitoring, Remote alarms, System training and Proactive recommendations for the changing needs of your facility.
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For more information call us today and ask to speak to your nearest AE Smith team about planned maintenance and system optimisation of your Building Automation Systems.
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