without the first component model and just by use of routine data
factor analysis can model the process operation and take full consideration of general sense of model error
therefore it has a good application prospect.Aimed at the dynamic characteristics in the actual process
the paper proposes a novel method based on dynamic factor analysis (DFA) to model the process data.In DFA
the sample matrix is extended based on the auto-regressive (AR) model
so it can well extract the information of auto-correlation and cross-correlation among process variables.In order to evaluate the operational condition of the process
the paper constructs several statistics as the monitoring indices to measure the features and errors
respectively.The application in the Tennessee-Eastman (TE) process shows the superiority of the DFA-based method.