An Expert System for Trend Analysis Applied to Turbomachinery

With the advent of computerized monitoring techniques, it is becoming evident that more automated methods of trend analysis and other diagnostic techniques are both possible and necessary. The implementation of a computerized health monitoring system has led to research into techniques for identifying trend behavior which can be used to detect equipment deterioration. The result has been the development of statistical techniques to characterize generic trend behavior and of an expert system to translate these into a diagnosis of equipment deterioration.