“…At present, MSPC-based techniques are firmly based on core component technologies that predominantly include principal component analysis, partial least squares, independent component analysis and their extensions (Rato, Reis, Schmitt, Hubert & De Ketelaere, 2016;Li, Qin & Zhou, 2010;Lee, Qin & Lee, 2006;Yu, Khan & Garaniya, 2016;Zhang, Sun & Fan, 2015;Li & Yang, 2015;Cai, Tian & Chen, 2017). These techniques, however, rely on the fundamental assumptions that (i) the process operates at a predefined stationary operating condition, where the recorded variables set has a joint multivariate distribution with a time-invariant mean vector and covariance matrix, and (ii) the recorded set possess no serial correlation.…”