Temporary expanding integrated monitoring network

A system for monitoring an industrial process for the manufacture of materials or objects, the system comprising a computer code product, the product comprising:

• a code directed to an input module, the input module code being adapted to input a plurality of process parameters from a process for manufacture of a substance or object;
• a code directed to a library module coupled to the input module code, the library module code including a plurality of computer aided processes, each of the computer aided processes being capable of determining an output based upon a predetermined training set of the plurality of process parameters;
• a code directed to an output module coupled to the library module code, the output module code being adapted to output a result based upon the predetermined training set and the plurality of process parameters;
• wherein each of the computer aided processes compares at least two of the plurality of process parameters against a portion of the training set of parameters and determines if the at least two of the plurality of process parameters are within a predetermined range of the portion of the training set of parameters.

A system for monitoring a process, the system comprising a computer program product, the product comprising:

• a code directed to storing a first model in memory;
• a code directed to acquiring data from a process;
• a code directed to applying the first model to the data to identify a first predicted descriptor characteristic of a state of the process;
• and
• a code directed to consulting a first knowledge based system to provide an output based upon the first predicted descriptor.

A method for monitoring a process, the method comprising:

• storing a first model in a memory;
• acquiring data from a process;
• applying the first model to the data to identify a first predicted descriptor characteristic of a state of the process;
• and
• consulting a first knowledge based system to provide an output based upon the first predicted descriptor.