This presentation covers the use of the PI System, specifically the PI Asset Framework (PI AF) and PI Event Frames (PI EF), as the cornerstone of the Operational States Management solution created by Anglo Platinum. The original intent was to create a Downtime Reporting solution, but because of the features of PI AF and PI EF, the application was easily extended to cover any Operation State. Anglo Platinum created a front-end Silverlight Web application to view, search, and report on the event frames that are generated by the application. The benefits of this solution are time savings, standardization, event data can be displayed in many different ways, and can be extended to include new operational states just by configuring new elements in PI AF.