Brand: Honeywell
Category: Other
Document Type: Manual
Language: EN
Manual for MCT404
Uploaded: Nov. 21, 2025, 8:27 p.m.
Manual Publish Date: 2016-06-01
This manual guides users through the features and operation of the Honeywell MC Toolkit communications tool, designed for interacting with smart field devices like transmitters. It covers configuration, calibration, monitoring, and diagnostics of Honeywell Digital Enhanced (DE) and HART devices. The document assumes basic knowledge of process transmitters and provides both background information and detailed procedures for using the MC Toolkit software, including its application with DE and HART protocols. Specific sections detail setup, connection procedures, device management via FDC and MC Toolkit applications, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
Troubleshooting and error codes
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| DD | Device Description File |
| DDL | Device Description Language |
| DE | Digitally Enhanced |
| Device | The hardware that is responsible for sensing the conditions present in a process and communicating this information to the Pocket PC. These conditions may include pressure, temperature. Examples of devices include the ST, STT. Device is also referred to as a Field Instrument |
| Download | The process of sending data from a Pocket PC to a Device |
| EDDL | Electronic Device Description Language |
| Export | Writing / saving parameters into a file |
| FDC | Field Device Communicator |
| FDM | Field Device Manager |
| HCF | HART Communication Foundation |
| Import | Reading / loading parameters from a file |
| MCT | Multi Communication Toolkit (MCT404) product that includes MC Toolkit application and FDC application |
| MCT404 | Options include ruggedized version with no approvals, Intrinsically-safe version with Zone1 approvals |
| Modem | Honeywell HART / DE modem that implements interfaces to the HART and DE network |
| Offline | The condition present when the MC Toolkit is running but is not connected to a live device. |
| Online | The condition present when the MC Toolkit is running and is connected to a live device. |
| Parameter | A piece of information representing a single unit of data in a device or database |
| PPC | Pocket PC |
| Record | A Set of Configuration parameters that consists of Device Type, Bus Type, Tag ID, Manufacturer, LRV, URV, Transfer Function and other Parameters |
| ST | Smart Transmitter, pressure - a Honeywell Field Instrument. |
| STT | Smart Temperature Transmitter - a Honeywell Field Instrument |
| Upload | The process of sending data from a Device to a Pocket PC |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language. A file type that provides a format for describing structured data from any application in a standard consistent way |