Abstract: Method and system for diagnosing messages generated during operation of a technical plant, wherein data sets and a predetermined self-organizing map are used to determine diagnostic statements on the operation of the plant, n-tuples corresponding to the data sets and containing predetermined values for process variables for error-free operation of the plant are stored at nodes of the self-organizing map, after a message has occurred minimum distances between data sets of the current time interval and data sets of the nodes of the self-organizing map are determined, and the corresponding node(s) is/are selected, symptoms are then determined by calculating differences between the data sets of the time intervals and the previously determined node(s), only differences of process variables exceeding a predefined threshold value being taken into account, and where process variables involved in previously determined symptoms are output such that a plant operator is supported in diagnosing a process message.

Abstract: A method for automatically determining a parameterization of an evaluation method via a computer includes generating a comparison data set and storing reference data in the generated comparison data set, stipulating a parameterization with which identification of particular partial data items of reference data items stored in the comparison data set is influenceable via the evaluation method, such that a relative number of partial data items identified during the evaluation in relation to all the reference data items stored in the generated comparison data set is quantitatively smaller than a predetermined threshold value, preferably smaller than 10%, preferably smaller than 5%, particularly preferably smaller than 1%, and providing the determined parameterization for performing the evaluation method to identify particular partial data items of the data set of the industrial plant.

Abstract: A method for automatically determining a parameterization of an evaluation method via a computer includes generating a comparison data set and storing reference data in the generated comparison data set, stipulating a parameterization with which identification of particular partial data items of reference data items stored in the comparison data set is influenceable via the evaluation method, such that a relative number of partial data items identified during the evaluation in relation to all the reference data items stored in the generated comparison data set is quantitatively smaller than a predetermined threshold value, preferably smaller than 10%, preferably smaller than 5%, particularly preferably smaller than 1%, and providing the determined parameterization for performing the evaluation method to identify particular partial data items of the data set of the industrial plant.