As the system monitoring technology become required in order to improve the system performance and the productivity, we’ve studied to the detection for the tool wear and the tool breakage using AE sensors that is able to detection of generated high frequency stress pulse at cutting. The detection system is consist of a sensing part, a amplifier part, a signal processing part, and a analysis & output part. The moment (a rms and a kurtosis) of statistical method is used for analysis of AE singnal. The experiment are carried out in a CNC lathe. In this study, we achieved that the amplitude level of the AE signal and statistical moments was largely changed as the tool failure. The change rate of Kurtosis was especially large, but the change rate of the rms was small.