Methods for Determining the State of Health of an Industrial Process

A method for determining a state of health of an industrial process, wherein the process is executed by at least one industrial plant comprising an arrangement of entities and the state of each such entity is characterized by a set of entity state variables, the method comprising:

• obtaining values of entity state variables;
• for each entity, providing the values to a model corresponding to the respective entity thereby obtaining a prediction of the state of health of the respective entity;
• determining propagation paths for anomalies between said entities based at least in part on the layout of the industrial plant executing the process;
• determining importances of the states of health of the individual entities for the overall state of health of the process based at least in part on said propagation paths;
• and
• aggregating the individual states of health of the entities to obtain the overall state of health of the process based at least in part on said importances.