Novel tracked orders (i.e., tracked orders that are not present in
"healthy" machinery) are useful for locating bearing anomalies.
Accordingly, a method for locating bearing anomalies in machinery is
provided that includes receiving vibration measurements acquired from the
machinery, analyzing the vibration measurements to identify novel tracked
orders indicative of bearing anomalies, and ascertaining the location of
a bearing anomaly by relating a novel tracked order thus-identified to
one or more further tracked orders. Thus, the novel tracked order does
not merely indicate the occurrence of a bearing anomaly, but, in
combination with the one or more further tracked orders, allows the
bearing anomaly to be traced to a particular position.