High-Speed Monitoring of Multidimensional Processes Using Bayesian Updates

The advent of modern data acquisition and computing techniques has enabled high-speed monitoring of high-dimensional processes. The short sampling interval makes the samples temporally correlated, even if there is no underlying autocorrelation among covariates. In this study, we introduce a new process monitoring scheme in a Bayesian framework. The key strategy of this study is to incorporate sequential observations into the estimation procedure for the parameters of interest to update the prior distribution. Based on the updated prior, we obtain the most appropriate estimation of the process parameters at each sampling epoch by maximizing the posterior probability. In addition, conventional statistical process control and monitoring methodologies suffer from the “curse of dimensionality.” The closed form of the estimate developed in this study through Bayesian updates enables the proposed method to be effective for high-dimensional process monitoring. Various simulation studies demonstrate the superiority of the proposed scheme in the high-speed monitoring of high-dimensional processes. Moreover, a few sample paths of the estimated mean in a procedure of the proposed method are illustrated to provide practitioners with insights into the monitoring and control of the process. Finally, we provide a real-life application to illustrate the proposed method.