Reconstruction-based Contribution for Process Monitoring

This paper presents a new method to perform fault diagnosis for data-correlation based process monitoring. As alternative to the traditional contribution plot method, reconstruction-based contribution of fault detection indices is proposed. The monitored indices are SPE, T² and a combined index φ. The lack of diagnosability of traditional contributions is analyzed for the case of single sensor faults with large fault magnitudes, whereas for the same case the proposed reconstruction-based contributions guarantee correct diagnosis. Monte Carlo simulation results are provided for the case of modest fault magnitudes by randomly assigning fault sensors and fault magnitudes. Copyright © 2007 International Federation of Automatic Control All Rights Reserved.