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.

Abstract: It is important to know the flow rates of oil and gas from individual wells in connected oil and gas wells. The existing methods for multiphase flow measurement are prohibitively expensive and used infrequently. The system is configured to ingest real-time and non-real-time data from a plurality of well data sources. Utilizing this data, a plurality of physics-guided data-driven well surveillance models run in real-time for forecasting a plurality of parameters including the flow rates of oil, gas and brine from individual wells, computing the health of well assets and performing fault detection and localization in well assets. The system is also configured to automatically compose a well performance optimization problem based on the current performance of the wells and health of well assets and solve the problem to identify optimal process settings for improving the operation of connected oil and gas wells.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to anomaly detection in an industrial environment including multiple industrial units and systems, generating huge volume of data. The conventional methods rely only on sensor data alone. The techniques of handling missing data plays a crucial role in determining the performance of industrial anomaly detection system. Further, imputation of missing data could cause error in computation, thus affecting the accuracy of the industrial anomaly detection system. The present disclosure addresses the problems associated with missing data by utilizing a masking technique. Further, the present disclosure utilizes quantitative and qualitative metadata associated with industrial system along with the sensor data to improve anomaly detection performance. Furthermore, the present disclosure includes a model recommendation system which provides transfer learning based utilization of existing models for similar industrial systems.

Abstract: Fault diagnosis in industries typically involves identification of key variables/sensors bearing fault signature, classification of detected fault into known fault classes and detecting root causes/sources of the fault. This disclosure relates to a method and system for a deep learning based causal inference in a multivariate time series data of abnormal events and failures in industrial manufacturing processes and equipment. The system generates causal networks for non-linear and non-stationary multivariate time series data. The causal network learns for a dynamic non-stationary and nonlinear complex process or system fault using observed data without any prior process knowledge. The causal networks of faults are identified in real-time using a deep learning-based causal network learning technique.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and system for real time prediction of tire remaining useful life using a tire digital twin. Herein, the digital twin of the tire monitors a plurality of tires while accounting for runtime as well as parking operation of tires. During runtime, tire goes through multiple operational changes, therefore, the system is configured to estimate the operational changes. The estimation is done in the form of index, which is compared with the manufacturers' recommended value. Similarly, while vehicle is parked, tire still goes through changes which play an important role in its overall health, like, long pending wheel rotation can lead to flat spot. Tire inflation can change owing to cool down effect as well as uncontrolled natural leakages. Further, these parameter indexes are clubbed together to calculate the health index of the tire, which is used to estimate the tire's current remaining useful life.

Abstract: Industrial processes and equipment are prone to operational changes and faulty operation of such processes and equipment can adversely affect output of the overall setup. Existing systems for monitoring and fault detection consider individual instances of data for fault detection, which may not be suitable for industrial processes. Disclosed herein is a system and a method for anomaly detection in an industrial enterprise. The system collects data from a plurality of sensors as input. The system processes the collected data along temporal dimension, during which the data is split to multiple segments of fixed window size. Data in each segment is processed to identify anomalous data, and data in segments identified as containing the anomalous data is further processed to identify one or more sensors that are faulty and are contributing to the anomalous data.

Abstract: Data is prone to various attacks such as cyber-security attacks, in any industry. State of the art systems in the domain of data security fail to identify adversarial attacks in real-time, and this leads to security issues, as well as results in the process/system providing unintended results. The disclosure herein generally relates to data security analysis, and, more particularly, to a method and system for assessing impact of adversarial attacks on time series data and providing defenses against such attacks. The system performs adversarial attacks on a selected data-driven model to determine impact of the adversarial attacks on the selected data model, and if the impact is such that performance of the selected data model is less than a threshold, then the selected data model is retrained.

Abstract: Health monitoring of complex industrial assets remains the most critical task for avoiding downtimes, improving system reliability, safety and maximizing utilization. Recent advances in time-series synthetic data generation have several inherent limitations for realistic applications. A method and system have been provided for generating mixed variable type multivariate temporal synthetic data. The system provides a framework for condition and constraint knowledge-driven synthetic data generation of real-world industrial mixed-data type multivariate time-series data. The framework consists of a generative time-series model, which is trained adversarially and jointly through a learned latent embedding space with both supervised and unsupervised losses. The system addresses the key desideratum in diverse time dependent data fields where data availability, data accuracy, precision, timeliness, and completeness are of prior importance in improving the performance of the deep learning models.

Abstract: Flow Shop Scheduling Problems (FSSP) solved using combination of Reinforcement Learning (RL), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Heuristics is effective if can provide makespan as minimum as possible. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for evolved State-Action-Reward-State-Action (evolved SARSA) RL for flow shop scheduling, which is a hybrid framework of hierarchical RL with evolutionary techniques and heuristics method to solve FSSP. An optimum job sequence is estimated that minimizes the makespan thereby achieving maximum utilization of the resources. The evolutionary and heuristics strategy is applied in a reinforced way of learning for estimating the optimal schedule. The framework refines FSSP solution provided by Reinforced-SARSA (R-SARSA) using the evolutionary Genetic Algorithms (GAs), which is further guided by heuristic in moving towards the optimal solutions and prevents from being stuck at a local optimum.

Abstract: Existing privacy-preserving techniques suffer from inherent drawbacks to retain characteristics of observed, and original industrial time series data for utility in the downstream tasks such as process modelling, control, optimization and etc. The embodiments herein provide a method and system for privacy preserving generative mechanism for data-disclosure of the industrial multivariate mixed-variable time series data. The system fuses an industrial time series data with a random gaussian noise to preserve the privacy of the industrial time series data and trades-off the privacy with the utility of synthetic-private data. Further, the system presents the privacy-preserving synthetic industrial data generative mechanism for data disclosure with minimal risk of AI technique and strong privacy guarantees.

Abstract: Recent advances and techniques in missing data imputation suffer from inherent limitations of preserving the relationship among the input feature attributes and the target variable and temporal relations between observations spanning across timeframes because of which it is also challenging to reconcile missing data for any downstream tasks. Present disclosure provides system and method that implement for congeniality-preserving Generative Adversarial Networks (cpGAN) for imputing low-dimensional incomplete multivariate industrial time-series data. The method minimizes the rubric based on the information theory for Machine Learning (ML) between the empirical probability distributions of the reconcile data and the non-linear original data to preserve the temporal dependencies and retain the input feature-attributes and target-variable relationship and probability distributions of the original data.

Abstract: Gas turbines are one of leading sources for power generation with lower greenhouse gas emissions. However, due to environmental concerns, gas turbines are moving towards adopting greener fuels. The shift towards greener fuels comes with own set of challenges as performance of gas turbine at different operating points needs to be accurately predicted as experiments are very costly to perform. Existing arts perform their analysis at operating line and performance estimation at other operating points is not specified. Present application provides systems and methods for estimating performance of gas turbine accurately in wide operating region. The system first accurately estimates outlet conditions for each stage of compressor. The system then utilizes estimated outlet conditions to determine outlet conditions associated with other component of gas turbine.

Abstract: The disclosure is a method and a system for root cause identification (RCI) of faults in manufacturing and process industries. With complex interrelated multivariate data in manufacturing and process industries, the process of root RCI of faults is challenging. Further, the existing techniques for RCI have significant dependency on manual inputs and subject matter knowledge/experts. The disclosure is method and a system for root cause identification of a fault based on causal maps. The root cause of fault is identified in several steps including: generation of casual maps using data received from a manufacturing and process industry and root cause identification from the causal maps based on a Fault Traversal and Root Cause Identification (FTRCI) technique. The FTRCI identifies root cause from the causal map by identifying a fault traversal pathway from a leaf node in the causal map, wherein the fault traversal pathway is identified for even cyclic paths.

Abstract: Rotary knifes/cutters play an important role in manufacturing of finished products. The rotary cutters tend to lose their cutting material over time. Hence to compensate, pressure applied by cylinder over rotary cutter needs to be changed. But this change in pressure needs to be optimum as too high pressure can lead to loss of material and too low pressure can stop cutting operation. Present application provides methods and systems for real time estimation of pressure change requirements for rotary cutters. The system first determines minimum and maximum usage limit for rotary cutter based on historical rotary cutter usage data and real-time pressure value using first trained model. The system, upon determining that minimum usage limit is reached, determines time for next pressure change based on physical parameters using second trained model. Thereafter, system compares estimated time with estimated maximum usage limit and displays notification to change pressure based on comparison.

Abstract: The gasoline blending is a critical aspect in oil refinery operations. There are multiple blending rules in prior art to predict the chemical or physical property of the blend. But none of the prior method focuses on obtaining the best blending rule for each feature used in creating the soft-sensor. A method and system for generating a soft-sensor for getting desired property of a blend by optimizing a set of blending rules for each feature used for creating soft-sensor have been provided using data from individual components of the blend. The method comprises automated soft-sensor creation using multiple data sources. Further, the method involves finding best blending rule for each feature used for building the soft-sensor or the blending model to predict property of the blend. The soft-sensor developed using data of components used for blending is adapted to predict mixture or blend property with limited tuning.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to system and method for molecular property prediction. The method utilizes a set-pooling aggregation operator to derive a graph-level representation of a complete input molecular graphs to assist in inductive learning tasks. The method includes iteratively down-sampling the molecular graph into a coarsened molecular graph, and determining adjacency matrix and feature matrix of the coarsened molecular graph. The method then includes computing an average of the hidden state node attributes of the coarsened graph obtained after preforming the iterations to obtain a graph level representation vector of the molecular graph. Using a linear layer from the graph level representation vector the molecular properties are determined.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to system and method for molecular property prediction. The disclosed method includes mapping node embeddings of a molecular graph to a graph-level embedding characterizing the molecular graph. The graph level representation is acquired by pooling characteristics of hidden states of the nodes in the molecular graph by performing an iterative content based attention in a plurality of iterations. The content based attention is performed by considering an edge information fused transformed hidden state vector of the nodes of the molecular graph. The graph level embedding is fed through the linear projection to predict the molecular properties of the molecular graphs.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to method and system to monitor and control continuous ultrafiltration (UF) process units. In real time, continuous operation of UF to handle variating concentration in feed stream is tedious and complex. The UF plant system receives a plurality of input data configured to UF process units and from the real time data outliers are removed and missing values are imputed. The prediction module predicts a volumetric concentration factor (VCF) value and a throughput value by selecting a model from a model repository. The optimization module optimizes the VCF value, and the throughput value based on a plurality of optimal variables recommended for a given feed concentration. The UF plant system controls the VCF value and the throughput value for a predefined period of a prediction horizon based on a plurality of trajectory profiles recommended for the feed flow rate, the pressure data, and a feed concentration.

Abstract: State-of-the-art systems used for plant monitoring and optimization fail to efficiently monitor and improve the performance of blast furnace ironmaking plants due to complexity of such plants. In addition, they attempt optimization without considering the operational stability of the blast furnace. The disclosure herein generally relates to industrial plant monitoring, and, more particularly, to a method and system for ironmaking plant optimization. The system determines an operational stability of the plant in terms of value of a determined Blast Furnace Stability Index (BFSI). Further, if the BFSI or one or more Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the plant deviates from corresponding threshold, then the optimization is done.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to system and method for molecular property prediction. The conventional methods for molecular property prediction suffer from inherent limitation to effectively encapsulate the characteristics of the molecular graph. Moreover, the known methods are computationally intensive, thereby leading to non-performance in real-time scenarios. The disclosed method overcomes the limitations of typical dynamic neighborhood aggregation (DNA) method by fusing the static edge attributes in determining the self-attention coefficients. In an embodiment, the disclosed method transforms the hidden state of a sink node by utilizing a neural-net function, which takes as input an aggregated single-message vector obtained by the self-attention mechanism and the self-attention mechanism transformed hidden state of the node.