and repeatable technique for facilitating coupling of the controller 14 to the pumping station hardware accordingly any pumping stations 2 having the same hardware and associated criteria parameters will also have the same determined wiring diagram 40 and will be wired in the same manner this will enable users to readily reconfigure pumping stations 2 as they are familiar with the wiring configuration and the wiring documentation is readily available in the form of a wiring diagram 40 in addition any upgrades or repairs to a pumping station involving the addition or replacement of hardware can be readily performed by performing the method 50 and inputting the new hardware criteria parameters advantageously the user need not have sophisticated programming skills to perform the method 50 such as those skills required by users that set up plc based systems as previously mentioned the software 20 would typically be provided on a media 21 such as a magnetic or optical disk or solid state memory which contains computer readable instructions for execution by the controller 14 to thereby perform the preceding method 50 a person skilled in the art will appreciate that many embodiments and variations can be made without departing from the ambit of the present invention in the configuration method 50 described in one embodiment both the hardware wiring configuration and software interface configuration was performed at elements 64 and 60 respectively in alternative embodiments the software interface block 26 need not be configured as the software 20 can accommodate a number of different wiring configurations in one embodiment the configuration software 28 for deciding upon a suitable wiring diagram 40 was loaded on and executed using.