Baosight selected Ice as the distributed computing foundation for iPlature. As an application development platform targeted at process control and computer-aided manufacturing, iPlature provides a wide range of services, including process management, data acquisition, logging, reporting, and database access. For more information on iPlature, see here (Chinese).

Shanghai Baosight Software Company (known as Baosight) was established in 1979 as the automation division for the Baosteel Group (ranking 298 in Fortune 500). It became a public company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in April 2001. Baosight is one of the largest IT companies and Most Competent IT Service Providers in China, and is especially strong in the manufacturing industry and in embedded software development.