Automation Magazine December issue (p.32) of 2006 posted an article called Profit from Condition Monitoring, where IMS Center was highlighted and Prof. Jay Lee, director of the center was interviewed, under the subtitle Do-it-yourself modeling. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Rather than developing a generic monitoring package, we developed a toolbox that industrial users can deploy quickly in days, rather than months and years,” says Jay Lee, Ph.D., the Center’s director. This toolbox contains more than 18 algorithms that tailor the embedded monitoring functions to the application at hand. The tools generate the features necessary for monitoring and predicting the condition of specific components or units, such as bearings, valves, spindles, motors and compressors.

Read the article.