A method and equipment for controlling a manufacturing process of a component of a tire for vehicle wheels, wherein at least one continuous elongated element fed by a supplying member is placed on a forming support by means of at least one pressing member active on the at least continuous elongated element along an application direction. During the manufacturing of the component of the tire, at successive sampling times Ti, the value Pi of a quantity indicative of the position of the pressing member is acquired along the application direction, where i is an integer greater than or equal to 1, Ti=i*1/f, and f is the sampling frequency.