“…Recently, process data have been studied and applied for monitoring (Ge, 2017;Li et al, 2020a), control (Jose et al, 2019), optimization (Xie et al, 2021), prediction (Zhang et al, 2019c(Zhang et al, , 2020b, and so on. In the field of process monitoring, multivariate statistical analysis methods (MSAM), such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) which do not require precise modeling of the process, have played an important role (Nawaz et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2020c).…”