Overview
About the APM Connect Data Loaders V2
The APM Connect Data Loaders V2 allow you to import records from external sources into Predix Essentials. A new improved version for data ingestion with improved user experience, dynamic classifications/types, improved performance, data/process error visibility at the record level, and better state management is introduced. Currently, only the Unified Asset Ingestion Data Loader is supported.
Unified Asset Ingestion Data Loader
This loader imports equipment and functional location data along with the Enterprise and Site to create the entire asset hierarchy. The loader also creates the relationships between the equipment or functional location records to their respective parent equipment and / or parent functional location records. These data are loaded into Predix Essentials and they are also loaded into GE Digital assets, segments, sites, enterprises and their corresponding relationships.
Predix Essentials Rules and the Data Loaders
When loading data into Predix Essentials, it is important to understand how Predix Essentials treats data, and the subsequent impact on data loads.
Predix Essentials creates records based on the rules for that family. Therefore, the data that is loaded into Predix Essentials via the Data Loaders are also subject to the same rules. This could result in blank Equipment records with no data if the rules for the family do not require data. Similarly, there is no restriction on key fields having to contain a value other than what is required by the rules.
For example, the baseline Equipment family does not have any fields that are marked as required in the rules, so when using the data loaders, equipment records are created even with only one field populated in the worksheet. If you only populated Maintenance Plant on the APM Connect data loader V2 spreadsheet, then an equipment records would be created with only maintenance plant and no other identifying information. It is also important to understand that since data is also being loaded into GEDA that the GEDA Classifications/Types are required.
Access the Data Loaders V2 Page
Procedure
The Data Bundles Status page appears, displaying information about the data import jobs. Each data import job is considered as a Bundle and the status of all the data import jobs in the last 48 hours appears on the page. You can use the drop-down option to change the time range filter from 48 hours to another time range. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Date Range option to specify a custom range. The default frequency of refreshing the page is 10mins. You can use the drop-down option to change the frequency of refreshing the page (Off, 30 sec, 1 min, 5 min and 10 min). Also, you can manually refresh the page using the Refresh option. The default Data Bundles origin is selected as All Origins. You can change the origin of the Data Bundle from the drop-down option.
Data Loaders V2 Workflow
This workflow provides the basic, high-level steps for using this module. The steps and links in this workflow do not necessarily reference every possible procedure.