“…The monitoring task of a process is composed of three main parts: sensing of the process, signal processing and monitoring decision-making. Different measures have been studied for machine tool monitoring: cutting force (Mashine et al, 1999), acoustic emission (Rice and Wu, 1993;Diei and Dornfeld, 1987;Kamarthi et al, 2000;Hutton and Hu, 1999), spindle motor current (Altintas, 1992), machine tool vibration (Li et all, 1998) and ultrasonic energy (Colgan et al, 1994). The different works have revealed there is no a signature extracted from a single signal free of false alarms in the detection process the cutting process abnormalities (wear, breakage, chipping).…”