Too often, production data is collected automatically and sent to the production accounting, mass balance, or ERP systems without validation by the operators or the domain specialists who understand the data. BabelFish Verify highlights if a process reading is outside its normal range, and prompts management or operations to either correct or accept the value with approved workflows.

Upfront, simple validation processes of input data for an asset saves hours of re-work for organisations. For example, the automatic or guided correction of a gas flow in error by the operator will save hours of searching and analysis in the head office when the month end gas balance will not reconcile. The automated validation process will also reduce the amount of invalid data and analysis mistakes that routinely happen. Overall, a unified strategy to data entry can save an organisation millions of dollars a year in rework, wasted time, and very costly mistakes.

Benefits of BabelFish Verify include:

• Validation of data at source before it is distributed to systems such as production, reporting, or allocation.
• Real-time operation with interfaces to production systems, where this is available.
• Trending of both current and historical information.
• Full audit trail and security.
• Monitoring production yields and balances.
• Provides valuable, validated data for business and asset planning.
• Decentralised system, can run on remote sites and send the validated data.
• Seamless integration with BabelFish Foundation Server.
• Fully configurable from the web browser without the need for a developer.
• Web-based for easy deployment.

BabelFish Verify is a powerful and key solution in the standardisation of production operations. Data is presented in an easy to understand tabular and graphical form accessed through a standard Internet web browser. This means that those who need to access the data do not need experience with complex software such as database programs or large and unwieldy spreadsheets. Data can be exported directly to Microsoft® Excel® for analysis at the client PC or loaded into virtually any other system or application. A web-based trending tool means that users can configure ad-hoc historical trends of any production data.

BabelFish Verify provides the interface for operators to:

• Validate the collected data on-site before it is transmitted to head office or the production reporting system.
• Enter manual data, such as downtime codes and manual samples.
• Correct erroneous data.
• View reports generated.
• Provide the signoff workflow between operator, supervisors, and facility managers.
• Keep a running log of what has happened during the production period.