FELCO Solutions, Inc

The J-Load Product

Description

J-Load is a J-Link application to import a large quantity of legacy Pro/Engineer data into Pro/INTRALINK, and in any of the Windchill solutions (PDMLink, PDMLink OnDemand, ProjectLink, INTRALINK).

Upon import, J-Load manipulates or examines selected parameters, verifies family table instances, breaks out family tables, and validates Pro/ENGINEER parts, assemblies, and drawings before saving into a workspace.

Once components are in workspace, a user can perform a check in or upload process into the server side common space. J-Load can perform automatic check-in or upload using Pro/ENGINEER 3.0 and above.

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Benefits and Advantages

The primary benefit of using the J-Load application is the cost savings associated with reduced demands and time invested for a user to perform legacy model upload and cleanup operations into a PDMLink workspace.

A matrix were performed using the J-Load application uploading 1000 Pro/ENGINEER parts into a PDMLink workspace. The parts were located locally on the client’s hard drive

The following operation were peformed on each of the 1000 parts:

Five new parameters were created and designated
Removed unwanted parameters
Verified 400 part family tables successfully
Exported mass property data into CSV file for ERP data loading

The below graph is the result of the matrix.

Result Time: Manual Process for 1 user:
	5 Days

Result Time: Using J-Load for 1 user:

1 Hour

Import Management

J-Load import management include:

Parameter Management
Verifies Family Tables
Break out Family Tables
Validates Pro/ENGINEERS items
Reports import errors
Resume importing if session terminates

Parameter Management

J-Load parameter management include:

Creates parameters
Designates and Un-Designates parameters
Break out Family Tables
Set parameter values
Deletes parameters
Renames parameters

General Options

General options include:

Component folder selection
Component selection in a text list
Connect to an existing Pro/ENGINEER session
Create a Pro/ENGINEER session for connection
Display components in the active Pro/ENGINEER window
Output selected component information
Update Drawing Formats

J-Load Customization

The developers can customize J-Load to work with your needs. If you need a task that is not included in the application then we can add functionality to fit your environment.