1. A diagnostics and control system for controlling a motorized system and diagnosing the health thereof, comprising: a controller that conveys a control signal to a motor drive to operate the motorized system in a controlled fashion; and a diagnostics system integrated with the controller and the motor drive to comprise a single unit that diagnoses the health of the motorized system according to a measured attribute associated with the motorized system, the diagnostics system providing a diagnostic signal to the controller, the diagnostic system includes at least one of a post processing portion that is a fuzzy rule based expert system and an associative list memory component that handles long bit strings of data, the associative list memory component based at least on an unsupervised training technique capable of learning within a single epoch.