Contextual data modeling and dynamic process intervention for industrial plants

A system comprising:

• at least one central computing device in functional association with a data storage network and a communications network, and configured for bilateral data communication with respective local controllers at each of a plurality of industrial plants via the communications network, and with one or more distributed user computing devices respectively configured to generate a graphical user interface on a display unit thereof,
• wherein the at least one central computing device is configured to direct the performance of, for each respective one of the plurality of industrial plants:
• mapping each of a plurality of data streams in the industrial plant to a common hierarchical data structure, wherein the data streams correspond to respective values or states generated in association with each of one or more unit operations, one or more assets, and one or more process streams in the industrial plant, and wherein the mapped data streams define hierarchical process relationships between subsets of the respective one or more unit operations, one or more assets, and one or more process streams;
• collecting real-time data to populate at least one level of the hierarchical data structure for one or more of the plurality of data streams;
• predicting a future outcome for a downstream operation based on the collected real-time data for at least one data stream, and at least one other data stream having a defined hierarchical process relationship therewith;
• and
• upon ascertaining that the predicted future outcome corresponds to an issue requiring intervention, generating an output signal based thereon.