Method and system for localization of faults in an industrial manufacturing plant

Abstract

Existing systems for fault detection and classification have the disadvantage that they have limited or no capability for fault localization and root cause identification, probably due to the challenges associated with modeling the nonlinear interactions among process variables and capturing the nonstationary behavior that is typical of most industrial processes. The disclosure herein generally relates to industrial manufacturing systems, and, more particularly, to method and system for localization of faults in an industrial manufacturing plant. The system uses a perturbation based approach for fault localization, in which the system determines variables having dominant effect on identified faults, in terms of a perturbation score calculated for each of the variables.