“…A SS system may be used as a physical representation of a machine (Lembregts, Leuridan, & Van Brussel, 1990;Petersen, Fraanje, Cazzolato, Zander, & Hansen, 2008;Sjövall & Abrahamsson, 2007, 2008, or as a general tool for specifying models that serve as predictors of the system (Lardies, 1998(Lardies, , 2008 either by itself or in a Condition Monitoring program, integrating Reliability Centered Maintenance and Remote Condition Monitoring (García, Schmid, & Conde, 2003;Pedregal, García, & Schmid, 2004). Especially related to this paper is Sjövall and Abrahamsson (2008), because they use also a continuous time SS model, though applied to the reconstruction of the interface forces acting between the unknown subsystem and its neighbour.…”