All steps of the erasing process are monitored and recorded. A detailed audit report can be generated at any time. The software detects any mistakes that may happen and alerts the operator immediately. The alert remains active until the mistake is corrected.

The erasing progress is displayed in the upper part of the screen. This includes the number of cartridges erased so far and a bar graph of the quality of these cartridges.

The lower part of the screen shows the last cartridge erased. This cartridge went correctly through the erasing process and is ready for use. In this example the cartridge has a quality score of 99 on a scale from 0 (bad) to 100 (good). (For more information about determining the quality of cartridges, see VeriTape)

As part of the erasing process, defective cartridges or cartridges that don't meet your quality requirements can easily be identified and discarded.

All steps of the recording process are recorded and mistakes are immediately flagged and are also recorded. For example, not erased cartridges are detected by the software. The operator is alerted to the problem at the time of the mistake. The software tracks the cartridge and increments the "Not Erased" counter, displayed below the "Total Cartridges" counter.

After the cartridge is properly erased, it is removed from the "Not Erased" list.

Reports can range from just summary information to detailed information about every cartridge processed. The user controls which details are included in the report.

Details can include:

•	Volser (bar code label)
•	Date and Time of erasure
•	VeriScore® (The quality score for the cartridge)
•	The manufacturer of the cartridge and its serial number
•	Cartridge type (LTO Generation, Worm)
•	Status (Erased, not erased, Ready for Use)
•	File name (of the file that contains the complete history of the cartridge)
•	Line number

Several output formats are available. See the possible selections in above screen on the lower left under "Output Format".

A simple text based format allows reports to be printed at any time.

Total tapes processed 5488 Erased 5486 No Init 0 LTO 1 132 LTO 2 64 LTO 3 208 LTO 5 1026 LTO 6 4056 Site Erased Tape Score 94.7 New tapes 0 (0%) Good 4592 (84%) Acceptable 587 (11%) Marginal 196 (3.6%) Bad 109 (1.4%) No. Volser VeriScore® Cart Type Status Date&Time 1 002199L5 96 LTO 5 Erased and Initialized 5/19/2014 11:04 AM 2 002378L6 92 LTO 6 Erased and Initialized 5/19/2014 11:05 AM 3 017249L6 93 LTO 6 Erased and Initialized 5/19/2014 11:05 AM • • • •

Other formats, like the "Comma separated values" and "Tab separated values" can easily be imported into spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, for example. How?