Apparatus and method for tag mapping with industrial machines

An apparatus, comprising:

• one or more industrial devices at an industrial facility, wherein the industrial devices include a plurality of sensors;
• an interface with an input and an output, the input configured to receive a list of equipment tag names and descriptions, each of the equipment tag names being associated with one of the plurality of sensors associated with an analytic, the analytic being a computer program processing information from the one of the industrial machines, the input configured to receive a list of analytic tag names and descriptions, each of the analytic tag names being associated with one or more of the plurality of sensors in the one or more industrial devices;
• a database including a domain term dictionary;
• a control circuit coupled to the interface and the database, the control circuit configured to normalize the equipment tag descriptions to create normalized equipment tag descriptions, and to normalize the analytic tag descriptions to create normalized analytic tag descriptions, the control circuit configured to create a first matrix of vectors that associates terms in a dictionary with aspects of the normalized equipment tag descriptions, and to create a second matrix of vectors that associates the terms in the dictionary with aspects of the normalized analytic tag descriptions,
• wherein the first matrix comprises an m by n matrix, each row of the first matrix being a vector having an normalized equipment tag name, each column of the first matrix being a different term, and each entry in the first matrix represents whether the normalized equipment tag name has the term;
• wherein the second matrix comprises an s by t matrix, each row of the second matrix being a vector having a normalized analytic tag name, each column of the second matrix being a different term, and each entry in the second matrix represents whether the analytic tag name has the term;
• wherein the control circuit is configured to compare each vector in the second matrix to each of the vectors in the first matrix to obtain first similarity measures as between each normalized analytic tag name from the second matrix and each normalized equipment tag name from the first matrix;
• wherein the control circuit is configured to, based upon the comparing, create an output, the output being a ranked list of normalized equipment tag names ordered according to the first similarity measures;
• wherein the control circuit is configured to determine whether to associate a normalized equipment tag name to an input of the analytic having the normalized analytic tag name based upon an analysis of the list;
• wherein the output is utilized by an automated learning circuit to improve a mathematical model that is utilized in future mappings between analytic tag names and equipment tag names.