Terminology
Terminology of the ADP Flow Studio#
- ADP Cloud
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The web service that is used to design the processing flows to run in ADP Edge nodes. ADP Cloud is hosted by Balluff. This is where you log-in, create, and manage all components of the ADP solution.
- Flow Studio
- The low-code visual development studio. This is where you innovate and build your flows by connecting different modules together in a workflow/data pipeline.
- Modules
- A library of over 100 building blocks for collecting, analyzing, and acting on data. New modules are added constantly. Contact Balluff if you need a module that’s not in the library. It might be coming soon.
- Flow App
- A working flow saved as a template to be reused. Why reinvent the wheel? Could be built by you, by us, or from partners or other third parties. Stay tuned for an upcoming User Community.
- ADP Edge
- The real-time engine that collect and process the data. Can be installed on an edge gateway, an on-premise server, VM, or in your private cloud. Anywhere you can run Docker.
- Credentials
- A central encrypted repository for storing your login credentials (user name, password, access keys, etc.) to different systems and applications. It simplifies for you so that you don´t need to enter the same information every time you want to access a system.
- Resources
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A central library of your resources. A resource is something that is either used when configuring modules in flows, such as:
- OPC UA tag lists
- Modbus register mappings
- Files that need to be downloaded into the ADP Edge nodes when deploying flows
- Custom scripts
- ML models
- Parameters
- Specific settings that you want to reuse in multiple flows or when you want to reuse the same flow multiple times but there are unique settings (IP address, user name/password credential etc.).
- Labels
- You can put labels on your ADP Edge nodes in order to create grouping. This way you can deploy the same flow to an unlimited number of ADP Edge nodes in one operation.