TIME SERIES FOR FAULT DETECTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL PILOT PLANT

Abstract

Forecasting the evolution of industrial processes can be useful to discover faults. Several techniques based on analysis of time series are used to forecast the evolution of certain critical variables; however, the amount of variables makes difficult the analysis. In this way, the use of dimensionality reduction techniques such as the SOM (Self-Organizing Map) allows us to work with less data to determine the evolution of the process. SOM is a data mining technique widely used for supervision and monitoring. Since the SOM is projects data from a high dimensional space into a 2-D, the SOM reduces the number of variables. Thus, time series with the variables of the low dimensional projection can be created to make easier the prediction of future values in order to detect faults.