“…With the recent development on EMD method, the technique has already been employed successfully in wide applications : earthquake, climate variability, analysis of daily surface air temperature data, nonlinear ocean waves, detection of structural damage, health-monitoring and so on (Huang and Attoh-Okine, 2005). Recently, literatures of its applications on the failure detection of gear, bearing and rotary machine have been reported (Loutridis, 2004, Parey, et al, 2006, Rai, 2007, and Gao, 2008. Because the vibration signals on gear box is always non-stationary, we try to adopt the EMD method to extract the most suitable feature vectors from the measured signal for fault detection.…”