PlantTriage

PlantTriage’s latest enhancement, Root Cause Finder, employs advanced mathematical techniques to automatically identify the root causes of process upsets, without requiring any process models or other prior knowledge of the process. Upsets that start in one part of a plant are reflected in the data patterns observed in other parts of the plant. By evaluating the correlations among instrument readings throughout the entire manufacturing facility, and the time-shift from one correlation to the other, PlantTriage is able to determine the most likely sources of process variation. Root Cause Finder results, color-coded to show the extent and the time-lag of the cause, are displayed graphically, at the top of PlantTriage’s Process Interaction Map. Other affected process areas are also shown on the display.