The benefits of automating pumpovers are obvious in regard to labour savings and wine quality. There are however challenges with pumps running dry, isolators turned off and restricted flow. These damage equipment and cause essential pumpovers to be missed. The common answer to these challenges is to install a conductivity switch or flow sensor which add to the cost and complexity. VinWizard has been interfacing to vfd drives supplied by others for many years. This allows winemakers to create and run pumpover schedules from wherever they may be. Without feedback from the pump there is however a risk the pumpover is not actually happening as expected. Working with a world leading VFD manufacturer VinWizard now offers the control software and VFD panel as an integrated solution to overcome the above issues. By polling the motor of the pump we can tell if it is free-wheeling in which case an alarm is raised and we stop the pump. If the pump does not start you are notified immediately. VFD