Operating manual

Control software

PILOT ROASTER SHOP

for coffee roasters PROBATONE type 2

Full screen
C33.08/00155-102-0
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Welcome 3

Installation 4
Hardware requirements 4
Establishing of network connection 4
Software installation 5

Surface 6

Survey of keys 7

Pre-adjustments 8
Establishing connection to the roaster 8
Configure programme 9

Operation 13
Roasting according to recipe 13
Enter a recipe 13
Loading recipe 15
Start roasting profile automatically 16
Manual roasting 17
Roasting recipe manually 17
Create recipe manually 18
Further recipe functions 20
Import recipe 20
Transfer recipe 21
Export recipe as PDF 22
History 23
Prepare report 25
Explanations concerning the roasting graph 26
Welcome

Congratulations that you have decided for the control software PILOT ROASTER SHOP!
With it you receive an innovative control software which was particularly developed for PROBATONE roasters of series 2.
It offers new and comfortable possibilities to better adapt the roasting to your requirements. Furthermore, the process and the quality are more easily reproducible.
By means of PILOT ROASTER SHOP you are now able to see all roasting parameters at a glance, to manage a large number of recipes and to directly archive a roasting
process via the recording mode. Moreover, comparisons between individual roasting profiles can be done or roasts can be started automatically.

The software is completed by an individual configuration possibility of surface and language.

We wish you much joy and above all good roasting results with your new software.
On the following pages, we will give you a detailed survey of the functioning of the programme.
We recommend reading the following pages carefully in order to optimally benefit from your new software.
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Installation

Hardware requirements
The hardware requirements can be found in the chapter PILOT ROASTER SHOP in your roaster manual.

Establishing of network connection

Details in this regard can be found in the chapter of the same name in your roaster manual.

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Software installation

1. Connect the removable data medium (USB stick) to the PC.

2. Call up Windows Explorer and select drive.
3. Start Setup.exe and follow the installation programme.

Determine the start

menu folder!
 German
 English

For the user, the folders alarms, history, recipes

and roaster will be created on the local data
medium
Determine the "\Users\NAME\Documents\Pilot Roaster Shop\".
destination folder!

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Surface

Click on one area in order to get to know more.

Status displays

Control keys Menus

Recipe display Roaster status

Drive status

Roasting curves

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Survey of keys
Roaster control Roaster control
Meaning “Add profile curve“ “Add profile curve“ Call-up Automatic Call-up Recipe Call-up Recipe Call-up Alarm
system system Call-up Options
Switching-on Switching-off mode management history management
Switching-on Switching-off

Symbol

Product Recording and Graphical

Call-up Roasting/cooling Burner position Recording Roaster
Meaning temperature TDI
time display roasting time presentation of the
Communication display Actual/Nominal Roasting stops connection display
starts cooling time

Symbol

Meaning Burner position in Product temp. Export roasting Print roasting Disturbance
Save entry Interrupt entry Roster fan off Roaster fan on
% in °C or °F profile profile Roaster fan

Symbol

Meaning Disturbance Disturbance Stirring Stirring Disturbance

Cooling fan off Cooling fan on Roasting drum off Roasting drum on
Cooling fan Roasting drum mechanism off mechanism on Stirring mechan.

Symbol

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Pre-adjustments
Establishing connection to the roaster

Pick the roaster name (machine name) resp. the IP address.

or Please press

Please select

Please press

If not recognised
automatically, enter
name or IP here.

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Configure programme

Please press

On the tab “Roasting“, you have access to the following parameters:

 Temperature unit
Select between Celsius and Fahrenheit.

 Roasting time, ascending or descending

Here you can determine, if the roasting time should ascend or should
descend from the roasting end time of the selected roasting profile.

 Roasting according to temperature

In automatic mode, the burner is only adapted when achieving the
respective nominal temperature (blue graph). If a tick was not made, the
burner is controlled according to current definition (nominal burner value,
pink line) at the respective point of time.

 Burner reduction after end of recipe

Automatically shuts down the roaster after the end of roasting to 0%.

 TDI scale
TDI=temperature development indicator
Changes the maximal value of the TDI axis (green) in the roasting curve
display with the selected factor.
(change of scaling, curve gets higher or flatter).

 TDI range
Changes the number of measuring points that are interpolated via the
TDI. Higher values generate a smoother TDI curve.

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On the tab “Report“, you have access to the following parameters:

 Logo
Here you can select a picture. This will appear on the roasting report in
the section ”History”.

 Text in the footer

Here you can determine the footer text for the report.
(e.g. company address)

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On the tab “Colours“, the colour presentation of diverse display
elements, particularly of the graph, can be changed.
The drop-down menu contains:
 Available colours
Here is a large number of standard colours which can
be selected quickly by clicking on them.
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 Advanced
In this section, you can determine a colour freely by
selecting the colour on the right side and by clicking
on the large field to determine the exact colour value.
Alternatively, you can also pull the regulators for red,
green and blue in order to mix a colour yourself. “A”
symbolises the covering capacity of the colour.
Afterwards click next to the field in order to close it.
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On the tab, “PILOT ROASTER SHOP“, you have access to the following parameters:

 Automatic update check

Here, you can determine if the programme searches upon start for updates
in the Internet alone. It is recommendable to activate this option in order to
keep the software up-to-date.

 Version
Here you can see the version number of your current software.

After having done your adjustments, please press in order

to take over the adjustment and to close the window.

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Operation
Roasting according to recipe
Enter a recipe

Start the roaster and heat up, then

Complete the field “Recipe name“.

Please press
Enter the batch size.

The other fields are optionally.

(cooling time must be completed for PROBATONE 25 SA)

“Type of roasting” determines if the roasting should be done according to

time or according to temperature.

Temperature: The actual product temperature on the thermocouple is

taken as orientation in order to control the roasting process. A control
step is only introduced in automatic mode when the pre-set temperature
is achieved. It also strongly depends on the product condition. This
adjustment compensates external influences more strongly than the
roasting according to time.

Time: Here, the recipe parameters are strictly started according to time
indications irrespective of the achieved temperature.

Please press to save your entries.

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Wait until the roaster has achieved the requested filling As soon as you start the roasting clock in the course of the If the roasting clock is stopped at the end of the
temperature (e.g. 210°C) and then proceed as described roasting process on the panel/screen, roasting process,
in the
Roaster manual under  the recording starts  the recording stops again

“Filling of batch and roasting“.
 each modification is recorded by the control system
and presented as marker point during the
recording.
 the end of roasting is recorded with roasting
time and roasting temperature
 the recipe is transferred to the recipe
management

or or

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Loading recipe

Start roaster and heat up, then

Please press

Please press

Please press

or or

Please press

Roasting profile is loaded

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Start roasting profile automatically

In order to switch on the roaster control system,

or

Please press

The roaster control system

regulates the position of the gas
regulator according to the recipe.

Wait until the roaster has achieved the requested filling

temperature (e.g. 210°C) and then proceed as described
in the At the end of the roasting time, the
Roaster manual under burner capacity, (for activated option) is
reduced to zero by the roaster control
“Filling of batch and roasting“. system.

Please press

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Manual roasting
Roasting recipe manually

Wait until the roaster has achieved the requested filling

temperature (e.g. 210°C) and then proceed as described
in the
Roaster manual under

“Filling of batch and roasting“.

Please press

or

At the end of the requested

roasting time, set the burner
or
performance to 0 % (if no
further batch should be
roasted).

Control the burner performance via the

touch panel or via the software

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Create recipe manually

Please press

Complete the field “Recipe name“.

Enter the batch size.

Complete the “end of roasting” according to the principle:

“15:00“ “220“.

The other fields are optionally.

“Roasting type“ determines if the roasting should be done according to

time or temperature.

Click the tab “Chart“.

Please press

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Please press

For each data point (time, degree, percent,

falling/rising product temperature), enter the values
via the keyboard:
(e.g.: 12:00 220 50 ascending)

Repeat this step so often until

the requested number of data
points is available.

Procedure: for control, only one exact component each is Please press
allocated to the requested burner value.

Roasting according to time: the times have to be

determined exactly here, temperature can be neglected,
because it only a rough estimation.

Roasting according to product temperature:, focus on

exact temperatures, time is only estimated roughly in order
to achieve the correct sequence.
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Further recipe functions

Import recipe

You can import recipes in XML format.

For this purpose go the “recipe window”.

Please press

Select source file

Please press

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Transfer recipe

If you have the software PILOT ROASTER SHOP installed on several devices,
you can easily transfer the recipes between them.
For this purpose, go to the “recipe window”, then

Select recipes
Select the device name or IP

Please press

Please press Please press

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Export recipe as PDF

Recipes can be exported as PDF.

In the ”Recipe survey“…

Please press

Enter memory location

and file name Please press

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History
The menu ”History” contains the previous roasts.

Here, a recipe can be generated of such

Select roast
an earlier roasting profile.

Please press

If you only search for a certain date, tick the

box and use the calendar.

Please press

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Complete the field “Recipe name“.

Enter the batch size.

The other fields are optionally.

“Roasting type“ determines if the roasting should be done according to time

or temperature.

Please press in order to confirm your entries.

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Prepare report
In the section ”History”, you can prepare a report.

Select a roaster Select a time frame

Please press
Select a recipe

Please press Enter memory location Please press

and file name

The appearance of the report can be configured individually.

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Explanations concerning the roasting graph

Temperature Development Indicator (green scale far left)

The TDI serves to illustrate the temperature modification. It shows how strong the
temperature varies during the time. Previous actual values are taken for the
interpolation of the curve in the future.

Particularly at the end of the roasting when the temperature differences get smaller,
a possible deviation from the nominal value can already be recognised approx. one
minute earlier by the TDI in order to counteract accordingly.

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