Modern industrial gas turbines installed in thermal power plants have its performance parameters monitored in real time, however, there are innumerable operation faults that cannot be detected by a simple visual analysis of these parameters, once the equipment operating condition is influenced by several factors. Diagnosis systems are usually offered by the manufacturers of these equipments, but the methodologies are not published in the open literature, which is mostly dedicated to aircraft engines. This dissertation proposes a gas turbine diagnosis system that operates through the continuous comparison between the field measured signals, simulated by a software, and results generated by a reference numerical model, which represents the healthy gas turbine. The compared signal is used as input to a fuzzy system that identifies and quantifies the faults severity. Dummy compressor faults have been tested and the influence of the variable geometry has been analyzed during the system calibration. The results have shown the robustness of the system and its capability to be applied in a real world situation.