Patent ID: 7853339
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G05B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for facilitating detection of a steady-state operation of a process in a process plant, the system comprising: a data collection tool adapted to collect process data from a process within the process plant, wherein the collected process data is representative of an operation of the process and wherein the collected process data is generated from a plurality of process variables; an analysis tool comprising a multivariate statistical analysis engine adapted to generate a representation of the operation of the process based on a set of the collected process data representative of the operation of the process, wherein the analysis tool is adapted to execute the representation based on the set of the collected process data to generate a first outcome corresponding to the largest amount of variation in the process; and a statistical calculation tool adapted to perform a statistical calculation on the first outcome corresponding to the largest amount of variation in the process to generate a statistical measure of the first outcome, and adapted to determine a steady-state operation status related to the process based on the statistical measure.