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ThermoTools

The clever way to configure your
industrial control components

■ Supporting your needs

Programmable industrial control components are becoming more and more advanced. As the world's largest supplier
of temperature and process controllers, Omron naturally takes a leading role in this field. In addition to the 'basic'
control functions, modern controllers must be capable to perform much more advanced and high level functions as
well.

As functionality increases, the number of parameters that must be programmed in general purpose controllers already
exceeds over 100 parameters. This requires significant programming time during the installation, especially if you
have a large number of applications and use a variety of controllers. Omron recognises that today's temperature and
process controllers and signal processing instrumentation require advanced software tools to support you and help
you save valuable set up time. The advanced ThermoTools software package has been designed to reduce your
installation, programming and testing time significantly!

■ ThermoTools

ThermoTools is an advanced software support package for Omron temperature
controllers, process controllers and a selection of other panel instruments that
exploits state-of-the-art ActiveX® technology.

The ThermoTools software provides an extensive range of functions to set up,
configure and monitor Omron industrial control components equipment.

Easy file handling and printing facilities help you to record your valuable process
data and parameter lists for use in installation, maintenance and quality
assurance documentation.

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■ ThermoTools supported products

A large range of 'digital programmable products' is supported by ThermoTools, and more will follow.

Supported hardware products

E5*N series, Basic Temperature controller line:

E5GN (< 2009), E5CN, E5EN and E5AN (< 2003)

E5*K series, Advanced Process and Temperature line:

Standard controller models: E5CK, E5EK and E5AK
Programmable controller models: E5CK-T, E5EK-T and E5AK -T

E5*R series, Advanced Process and Temperature Controller line:

E5ER and E5AR

E5ZN, Compact multi-loop controller

All E5ZN models

E5ZE series, Compact multi-loop controller line:

All E5ZE models

K3N series: Advanced line of Intelligent Signal Processors

K3NC, K3NH, K3NP, K3NR, K3NV, K3NX, K3GN and H8GN

Temperature controllers and

Process controllers

Panel meters, Timers and Counters

■ Simple yet advanced at the same time...

ThermoTools is equipped with extended help functionality, that covers everything
from getting started to becoming familiar with the advanced functionality. The
'configuration wizard' can be used to configure controllers for 'basic' applications.
The wizard will ask you a sequence of questions about the type of controller set up
that you require based on the most commonly used parameters. This allows you to
create a quick and easy set up.

■ All parameters at your fingertips

The ThermoTools components use a series of tabs to display information regarding
the controller parameters, all sorted in a very logical order, making each parameter
easy to find.

Even if no device is connected you are still able to edit, save and load parameter sets.
If a device is connected, two modes are available; the configuration mode and the
monitoring mode. In configuration mode, parameter sets may be downloaded to, and
uploaded from, the controller. Parameter sets can also be saved to store your
settings, for use on other applications. In this way you can create a library for your
applications and their settings. Listing details of the machine, customer or application
can be done in the notes section, for quick and easy recognition or retrieval. If
required you can also reset all parameter values in the controller back to their factory defaults by pressing the 'Reset
to factory settings' button.

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