Integrating infrastructure is the basic supporting environmentforCIM(computer integrated manu-facturing)systems.This paperintroduces the design and implementation ofan opening distributed CIM integrat-ing infrastructure,HIT-IIS.2,developed by HIT(Harbin Institute of Technology).The HIT-IIS.2 prototypeincludes the following service functions for CIM systems:business process control,enterprise activity control,resource management,definition and description,system information,communication managementand front-endinterface.Each service function is described in the paper.