Tennessee-Eastman-Process Alarm Management Case Study

This is an alarm management case study based on the “Tennessee-Eastman-Process” (TEP). The presented case study aims to provide a suitable benchmark dataset for the development and validation of alarm management methods in complex industrial processes using both quantitative data and qualitative information from different sources. Unlike real industrial processes, simulation of the TEP allows to design and generate abnormal sequences, which can be repeated and varied without risking the loss of equipment or harming the environment. In addition, as the simulation is supervised, all induced faults and process normalizations are explicitly known and therefore act as a ground truth, facilitating the utilization of external evaluation metrics (e.g. when using cluster analysis). Further details are described in a supplementary technical report.