diff --git a/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/__init__.py b/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/__init__.py
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diff --git a/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/component.json b/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/component.json
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+{
+  "engineType": "Python",
+  "language": "Python",
+  "userStandalone": false,
+  "name": "file_to_dataframe",
+  "label": "Source File to DataFrame",
+  "program": "main.py",
+  "componentClass": "MCenterComponentAdapter",
+  "modelBehavior": "Auxiliary",
+  "useMLOps": true,
+  "inputInfo": [{
+    "description": "File to read contents",
+    "label": "File-Name",
+    "defaultComponent": "",
+    "type": "str",
+    "group": "data"
+  }],
+  "outputInfo": [
+    {
+      "description": "Pandas Dataframe",
+      "label": "dataframe",
+      "defaultComponent": "",
+      "type": "dataframe",
+      "group": "data"
+    }
+  ],
+  "group": "Connectors",
+  "arguments": [
+    {
+      "key": "file-path",
+      "label": "Dataset file to read",
+      "type": "str",
+      "description": "File to use for loading DataSet into DataFrame",
+      "optional": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "version": 1
+}
diff --git a/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/main.py b/components/Python/fileConnectors/file_to_dataframe/main.py
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+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+import time
+import os
+import pandas
+
+from parallelm.components import ConnectableComponent
+from parallelm.mlops.stats.multi_line_graph import MultiLineGraph
+from parallelm.mlops import mlops as mlops
+
+class MCenterComponentAdapter(ConnectableComponent):
+    """
+    Adapter for read_file_to_df 
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, engine):
+        super(self.__class__, self).__init__(engine)
+
+    def _materialize(self, parent_data_objs, user_data):
+        if len(parent_data_objs) is not 0:
+            file_path = str(parent_data_objs[0])
+        else:
+            file_path = self._params.get('file-path')
+        return [read_file_to_df(self, file_path)]
+
+
+def read_file_to_df(self, filepath):
+    """
+    Read file and return DataFrame
+    """
+    mlops.init()
+    if not os.path.exists(filepath):
+        self._logger.info("stderr- failed to find {}".format(filepath), file=sys.stderr)
+        raise Exception("file path does not exist: {}".format(filepath))
+
+    test_data = pandas.read_csv(filepath)
+    mlops.done()
+    return test_data
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--file-path", default='/tmp/test-data.csv', help="Dataset to read")
+    options = parser.parse_args()
+    return options
+