Monitoring control apparatus

A monitoring control apparatus that monitors a plurality of monitored items that are monitored targets, the monitoring control apparatus comprising:

• relevance defining circuitry to define relevance between monitored items in the plurality of monitored items;
• a relevant model management database to manage a plurality of relevant models, using relevant monitored items of the plurality of monitored items, the relevant monitored items being defined by the relevance defining circuitry;
• a monitoring data management database to manage monitoring data on the plurality of monitored items;
• causal relationship calculation circuitry to calculate, when an error occurrence is detected from at least one of the plurality of monitored items, with which monitored item of the plurality of relevant models the error occurrence has a causal relationship, based on the plurality of relevant models managed by the relevant model management database and the monitoring data managed by the monitoring data management database;
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• cause identification circuitry to identify a cause of the error occurrence, based on the monitored item with the causal relationship which has been calculated by the causal relationship calculation circuitry,
• wherein the causal relationship calculation circuitry calculates the monitored item having the causal relationship with the error occurrence, based on a chronological change in the monitoring data before and after the error occurrence, and
• the relevance defining circuitry defines, as the relevance between the monitored items, system relevance between a monitoring control system and an equipment management system.

A monitoring control apparatus that monitors a plurality of monitored items that are monitored targets, the monitoring control apparatus comprising:

• relevance defining circuitry to define relevance between monitored items in the plurality of monitored items;
• a relevant model management database to manage a plurality of relevant models, using relevant monitored items of the plurality of monitored items, the relevant monitored items being defined by the relevance defining circuitry;
• a monitoring data management database to manage monitoring data on the plurality of monitored items;
• causal relationship calculation circuitry to calculate, when an error occurrence is detected from at least one of the plurality of monitored items, with which monitored item of the plurality of relevant models the error occurrence has a causal relationship, based on the plurality of relevant models managed by the relevant model management database and the monitoring data managed by the monitoring data management database;
• and
• cause identification circuitry to identify a cause of the error occurrence, based on the monitored item with the causal relationship which has been calculated by the causal relationship calculation circuitry,
• wherein the causal relationship calculation circuitry calculates the monitored item having the causal relationship with the error occurrence, based on a chronological change in the monitoring data before and after the error occurrence, and
• the relevance defining circuitry defines, as the relevance between the monitored items, relevance in information from a different sensor and information from a data source on an identical object.

A monitoring control apparatus that monitors a plurality of monitored items that are monitored targets, the monitoring control apparatus comprising:

• relevance defining circuitry to define relevance between monitored items in the plurality of monitored items;
• a relevant model management database to manage a plurality of relevant models, using relevant monitored items of the plurality of monitored items, the relevant monitored items being defined by the relevance defining circuitry;
• a monitoring data management database to manage monitoring data on the plurality of monitored items;
• causal relationship calculation circuitry to calculate, when an error occurrence is detected from at least one of the plurality of monitored items, with which monitored item of the plurality of relevant models the error occurrence has a causal relationship, based on the plurality of relevant models managed by the relevant model management database and the monitoring data managed by the monitoring data management database;
• and
• cause identification circuitry to identify a cause of the error occurrence, based on the monitored item with the causal relationship which has been calculated by the causal relationship calculation circuitry,
• wherein the causal relationship calculation circuitry calculates the monitored item having the causal relationship with the error occurrence, based on a chronological change in the monitoring data before and after the error occurrence, and
• the causal relationship calculation circuitry calculates, as the monitored item having the causal relationship with the error occurrence, a monitored item similar in the chronological change in the monitoring data before and after the error occurrence to the monitored item from which the error occurrence has been detected.