Ultrasonic flow meter prognostics with near real-time condition based uncertainty analysis

A system comprising:

• a local environment comprising at least one first processing device;
• and
• a cloud-based environment comprising at least one second processing device;
• wherein the at least one first processing device is configured to:
• obtain flow measurement data from a flow meter in an industrial process control system;
• and
• send the flow measurement data to the cloud-based environment;
• wherein the at least one second processing device is configured to:
• perform condition based monitoring (CBM) analysis on the flow measurement data to determine CBM data;
• and
• perform uncertainty analysis on the CBM data to determine a validated flow rate with an uncertainty value;
• wherein the at least one first processing device is further configured to:
• compare the validated flow rate to the flow measurement data to determine a technically audited flow rate;
• send the technically audited flow rate to a distributed control system (DCS) associated with the flow meter;
• generate prognostics data of the flow meter by performing prognostics analysis using the CBM data and a virtual twin instance of the flow meter, the virtual twin instance of the flow meter configured with properties that are the same as the flow meter;
• and
• send the prognostics data of the flow meter to the DCS associated with the flow meter.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:

• obtain flow measurement data from a flow meter in an industrial process control system;
• send the flow measurement data to a cloud-based environment;
• perform condition based monitoring (CBM) analysis on the flow measurement data in the cloud-based environment to determine CBM data;
• perform uncertainty analysis on the CBM data in the cloud-based environment to determine a validated flow rate with an uncertainty value;
• compare the validated flow rate to the flow measurement data to determine a technically audited flow rate;
• send the technically audited flow rate to a distributed control system (DCS) associated with the flow meter
• generate prognostics data of the flow meter in the cloud-based environment by performing prognostics analysis using the CBM data and a virtual twin instance of the flow meter, the virtual twin instance of the flow meter configured with properties that are the same as the flow meter;
• and
• send the prognostics data of the flow meter to the DCS associated with the flow meter.