ABSTRACT
Today lots of methods and techniques are applied in condition monitoring of equipments and systems. In this article, for the equipment object of study, we found a failure in the monitoring methodology: a continuous analysis of data collected systematically was lacking, preventing a timely detection of trends, eventually avoiding catastrophic failures such as those that happened in the past. There is then a gap between the real occurrence of trend in the collected characteristic values, and the reaction time where it would be possible to avoid a catastrophic failure.
