The China National Bluestar (Group) Co, Ltd is centered on the chemical industry and focuses on new chemical materials and animal nutrition. Bluestar has developed rapidly and grown into one of China’s most successful chemical companies. To stay competitive, the company and subordinate enterprises used the PI System to provide the real-time data infrastructure and collaboration tools they need to meet key challenges. The users explain how they applied and benefited from their PI System. These users include Bluestar site engineers with different roles and company headquarters managers in different departments; their applications based on the PI System include tank management, overall unit effectiveness analysis, control method simulation, statistical quality control (SQC) and implementing six-sigma initiatives. Though applied by different users, these successful applications have the same benefit for the whole company: optimizing production and increasing energy efficiency. This is the power of data derived from use of the PI System.