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To support tackling the accident that is about to occur after an alarm, a pre-warning method is proposed for a special class of industrial process variables to alert operators about the remaining time to alarm. The main idea of the proposed method is to estimate the remaining time to alarm based on variation rates and mixture entropies of qualitative trends in univariate variables. If the remaining time to alarm is no longer than the pre-warning threshold and its mixture entropy is small enough then a warning is generated to alert the operators. One challenge for the proposed method is how to determine an optimal pre-warning threshold by considering the uncertainties induced by the sample distribution of the remaining time to alarm, subject to the constraint of the required false warning rate. This challenge is addressed by utilizing Bayesian estimation theory to estimate the confidence intervals for all candidates of the pre-warning threshold, and the optimal one is selected as the one whose upper bound of the confidence interval is nearest to the required false warning rate. Another challenge is how to measure the possibility of the current trend segment increasing to the alarm threshold, and this challenge is overcome by adopting the mixture entropy as a possibility measurement. Numerical and industrial examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and the advantages of the proposed method over the existing methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27070736","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,11]],"date-time":"2025-07-11T13:44:19Z","timestamp":1752241459000},"page":"736","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Pre-Warning for the Remaining Time to Alarm Based on Variation Rates and Mixture Entropies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7647-3718","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zijiang","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2635-8724","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiandong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Honghai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shandong Luruan Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Jinan 250098, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Song","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Power Grid Center, Shandong Electric Power Research Institute for State Grid Corporation of China, Jinan 250000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1045","DOI":"10.1109\/TASE.2015.2464234","article-title":"An overview of industrial alarm systems: Main causes for alarm overloading, research status, and open problems","volume":"13","author":"Wang","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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