About the Unified Asset Ingestion Data Loader

The Unified Asset Ingestion data loader allows a user to import data from an Excel workbook to populate Essentials with equipment and functional location data.

Important:
  • In Essentials, you should use this data loader to load equipment and functional location data into the database.
  • The Unified Asset Ingestion data loader should not be used for:
    • File sizes greater than 10 MB in a single load.
    • Greater than 10,000 records in a single load.

More Details

Essentials contains two underlying databases with different structures: the Predix database and the Meridium database. When data is loaded into Essentials using the Unified Asset Ingestion Data Loader, the data is populated in both databases. This creates is a single point of ingestion through APM Connect as shown in the following image.