Process performance issues and alarm notification using data analytics

A method, comprising:

• providing historical process data for an industrial process run by an industrial processing facility (IPF) having processing equipment including stored data including stored alarm event data and stored Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data for at least one KPI, and a processor implementing an alarm event-KPI correlation and operator notification system, said system:
• discovering patterns including relationships between said stored alarm event data and said stored KPI data to provide a reference pattern database that identifies KPI violation events in said stored KPI data as a function of said stored alarm event data or alarm events in said stored alarm event data as a function of said stored KPI data;
• pattern matching, wherein a real-time alarm event and real-time KPI data obtained from said industrial process are read and a pattern similarity is determined by comparing a current sequence spanning a predetermined time span of said real-time alarm event and said real-time KPI data to said patterns of relationships in said reference pattern database,
• when said pattern matching identifies a current alarm event or a current KPI violation event, notifying an operator and providing a predicted KPI value or KPI feature for said current KPI violation event from said real-time alarm event or a predicted alarm event from said current KPI violation event, and
• wherein said predicted KPI value or KPI feature is provided, and when said predicted KPI value or KPI feature is determined to be violating a predetermined limit, range or condition, automatically generating a notification including a recommendation for implementing a corrective action to at least one piece of said processing equipment to stabilize operation of said industrial process.