Quality-Related Fault Detection Approach Based on Orthogonal Signal Correction and Modified PLS

Partial least squares (PLS) is an efficient tool widely used in multivariate statistical process monitoring. Since standard PLS performs oblique projection to input space X, it has limitations in distinguishing quality-related and quality-unrelated faults. Several postprocessing modifications of PLS, such as total projection to latent structures (T-PLS), have been proposed to solve this issue. Further studies have found that these modifications fail to reduce false alarm rates (FARs) of quality-unrelated faults when fault amplitude increases. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes an enhanced quality-related fault detection approach based on orthogonal signal correction (OSC) and modified-PLS (M-PLS). The proposed approach removes variation orthogonal to output space Y from input space X before PLS modeling, and further decomposes X into two orthogonal subspaces in which quality-related and quality-unrelated statistical indicators are designed separately. Compared with T-PLS, the proposed approach has a more robust performance and a lower computational load. Two case studies, including a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman (TE) process, show the effeteness of the proposed approach.