Fault diagnosis with multivariate statistical models part I: using steady state fault signatures

Multivariate statistical approaches to fault detection based on historical operating data have been found to be useful with processes having a large number of measured variables and when causal models are unavailable. For fault isolation or diagnosis they have been less powerful because of the non-causal nature of the data on which they are based. To improve the fault isolation with these methods, additional data on past faults have been used …