Winery Engineering encompasses the peripheral activities (eg. design, supply, construction and process realisation) that make winemaking possible from grape to glass.The Winery Engineering Association provides a forum for those who engineer the winemaking process and is intended to compliment the existing forums for Winemakers.The Winery Engineering Association represents the hundreds of people who provide engineering, maintenance and wine production services within and to the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry.In the early 1980s a small group of people responsible for winery maintenance and engineering got together annually, in conjunction with Programmed Maintenance Services, and discussed items of common interest and helped each other.That annual gathering has grown into the National Conference of the Winery Engineering Association. The two day conferences have been held in most of the major wine regions of Australia, and now we also hold a conference in New Zealand every second year.