Press release 14. July 2002
FAQ section is updated


Press release 26. June 2002 version 6.531
Support of 16 COM port's for all drivers.
Bitlink driver is updated


Press release 14. December 2001 version 6.525
Datalogfiles can now be formatted as HTML files, so they can be viewed with your internet browser.


Press release 2. July 2001 version 6.521
Modicon TSX Modbus RTU PLC driver  and generic Modbus RTU driver for equipment supporting the Modbus protocol. All drivers are implemented in the evaluation versions of ICE and DDEdrive.

Hotkey assignments of function keys to ICE HMI windows is added


Press release 12. Martz 2001 version 6.512
WM3-96 driver for Carlo Gavazzi Energy Management Modular Power Analyzer, is implemented in the evaluation versions of ICE and DDEdrive.


Press release 14. February 2001 version 6.511
WM2-EM2 driver for Carlo Gavazzi Energy Management Modular Power Analyzer, is implemented in the evaluation versions of ICE and DDEdrive. Driver for the WM3-96 analyzer is currently under development.

Small additions and extensions to dynamic objects in ICE.


Press release 30. August 2000 version 6.506
New dynamic objects added, Windows checkbox, radio button and list box. Update performance from PLC's has been improved.


Press release 19. April 2000 version 6.500
New and improved interface of MDraw and ICE. MDraw now implements floating toolbars that can be configured by the developer. Menu bar and toolbar can be removed, giving nearly a full screen display of HMI pictures. Moving bitmap objects, that can be changed/controlled from the PLC.


Press release 21. February 2000
Siemens S7-200 driver, that uses the standard PPI programming cable is now implemented in Industrial Control Environment and DDEdrive and is ready for download with this driver included.


Press release 14. January 2000 version 6.130
Whole project's can now be exported from MDraw and zipped very easy with WinZip32. This makes it very easy to move project's to other computers.


Press release 9. December 1999 version 6.127
Trend's is expanded to 8 pens and it is now possible to control all trend windows from one trend menu. Trending in several windows can now be started and stopped globally from each trend menu.


Press release 2. December 1999 version 6.125
BitLink driver supports the Bitlink company's own DLL driver if it is installed. Several extensions to recipe handling.


Press release 22. November 1999 version 6.122
New Dynamic text object that displays text controlled by the PLC. Added feature for flashing Lamp objects. The LED display object, now supports large 32 bit numbers. New project wizard has been automated even further. Data logging can now be controlled by the PLC in all objects that supports data logging


Press release 1. October 1999 version 6.120
Templates for defining the output format of log files. Tracking the highest and lowest value into log files. Several objects now support this feature.


Press release 1. April 1999 version 6.101
ICE is now supporting wizards for creating new projects and saving the status of pictures to open at startup. The interface now has flat style toolbars as in Win98.


Press release 10. Martz 1999 version 6.020
New powerful picture compiler and find/replace tags function, is now available in MDraw. The compiler and the find/replace tags function can even dig down, replacing embedded tags in files. These functions add to greater productivity and makes it easier to keep up your tags. The compiler scans your picture for tags and assure that they exist in the tag database. If a tag in a picture is not found in the tag database, you will be presented for the object causing the error.

MDraw will now send notifications to ICE whenever a picture or project changes.

The Bit Link FastLink ISA card driver is now supported


Press release 14. January 1999 version 6.012
New Order form object for production machines. This object can collect all sort of data from several machines and print a report.

This type of machine normally has an item counter. Before starting a new order the counter is preset to the number of items to produce. When the item counter reach the preset counter value, the machine stops. The machine might have several stops during the production time. The Order form can monitor the cause and the length of these stops times, and do a report printout at the end of production. During production, pre-history stop causes can be viewed at all times.

In the MDraw application, text objects now supports multiline text wrapping and a length of 250 chars.


Press release 30. November 1998 version 6.010
Additional options for log files is added. Now it's possible to do automated printouts of log files once a day.



Press release 1. November 1998 version 6.000
With the introduction of the new version of Industrial Control Environment 6.0 to Windows 95-98 several functions is expanded

The new project based integrated environment gives you the power to manage several different MMI/SCADA projects very easy. Each project can even be dialed up via modem once a day or on an timed basis. This way data can be collected from several sites without the interference from an operator.

The documentation generator takes care of the documentation of each project and picture for you. When you have finished creating your MMI pictures your documentation is also ready to be printed. No need to make that manually any more. Projects also contains version information, so you can keep track of your project changes.

The log manager maintains operator access levels and passwords for each project.

Extended activity logging and project logging, that tracks what the operator is doing and the values that the operator is changing in the PLC.


Data logging in columns
User defined symbols in different sizes
Trend curves with logging to disk and zoom function
and much, much more......