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In these systems, sensors are highly interconnected, and local anomalies frequently affect multiple components. Because these interconnections are often implicit and involve complex interactions, systematic characterization is required. To address this, our study employs graph neural networks with a structure-entropy-based attention mechanism, which models multi-element relationships and formally represents implicit relationships within complex industrial systems using a network-based structural model. Specifically, our method distinguishes the weights of different high-order neighbor nodes based on their locations, rather than treating all nodes equally. Through this formalization, we identify and represent key adjacent elements by analyzing system entropy. 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