Real-life time series characteristic data has significant amount of non-stationary components, especially periodic components in nature. Extracting such components has required many ad-hoc techniques with external parameters set by users in case-by-case manner. In our study, we evaluate whether Hilbert-Huang Transform, a new tool of time-series analysis can be used for effective analysis of such data. It is divided into two points : 1) how effective it is in finding periodic components, 2) whether we can use its results directly in detecting values outside control limits, for which a traditional method such as ARIMA had been used. We use glass furnace temperature data to illustrate the method.