Statistical Monitoring of Complex Multivariate Processes: With Applications in Industrial Process Control

Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible without encouragement, dedicated help and constructive comments from a large number of people. We would like to thank SupCon Software Co Ltd., Hangzhou, P.R. China, for providing access to the data sets used in Chapters 7 and 8. We particularly thank Dr. Yong Gu and Mr. Yanhui Zhang for technical advice regarding these data sets and for interpreting associated results. Our thanks also extend to Dr. Jian Chu, Dr. Hongye Su and Dr. Shuqing Wang for facilitating numerous research visits by Dr. Uwe Kruger to the Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, P.R. China, from 2006 onwards.

Dr. Xie is grateful for financial support from the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60904039, 61134007) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Furthmore, Dr. Kruger would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry Of Education Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline (111 Project, Grant No. B07031).

With regards to the recorded data from the chemical reaction process in Chapter 4, Dr. Uwe Kruger is grateful to Dr. Keith Smith for advice on how to interpret the process data, and ICI Polymer Chemicals for providing access to the operating data used and for the permission to present associated results in Kruger et al (2001). Dr. Kruger would also like to thank Mr. Steve Robinson for providing helpful advice in analyzing and interpreting the process data of the distillation ...