Abstract. Fault diagnosis for bearings is a focus and difficulty in diagnosis research area, so an intelligent diagnosis method using intrinsic time-scale decomposition(ITD) and extreme learning machine (ELM) is proposed in this paper. ITD is a relatively practical non-stationary signal decomposition method, which can decompose non-stationary signal into several components. Then, coefficient of kurtosis was extracted, which was acquired to reduce feature dimensions. Last, in order to reduce man-made interference and increase diagnostic accuracy, ELM was applied to identify and classify bearing states. The experimental result shown that above methods work well in classification and diagnosis for bearings state timely.