diff --git a/amstrax/auto_processing_new/offline_processing.py b/amstrax/auto_processing_new/offline_processing.py
index e0f68c23..7623683a 100644
--- a/amstrax/auto_processing_new/offline_processing.py
+++ b/amstrax/auto_processing_new/offline_processing.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def main(args):
         if args.production:
             # amstrax_path will be something like /data/xenon/xams/amstrax_versioned/vTEST1
             # we want to extract the last part of the path, for example vTEST1
-            jobname += f"_{args.amstrax_path.split('/')[-1]}_production"
+            jobname += f"_{args.amstrax_path.rstrip('/').split('/')[-1]}_production"
 
         arguments = []
         arguments.append(f"--run_id {run_id}")
diff --git a/amstrax/auto_processing_new/process.py b/amstrax/auto_processing_new/process.py
index 550fb538..5b519203 100644
--- a/amstrax/auto_processing_new/process.py
+++ b/amstrax/auto_processing_new/process.py
@@ -55,12 +55,24 @@ def setup_production(self):
             log.info("Setting up production configurations.")
 
             # Set the output folder to the production folder
-            if self.output_folder:
+            if self.output_folder is not None:
                 raise ValueError("Output folder should not be set when processing production data.")
 
             self.output_folder = self.amstrax.get_xams_config("xams_processed")
             log.info(f"Output folder set to {self.output_folder}")
 
+            # Make sure we specified corrections version
+            if not self.corrections_version:
+                raise ValueError("Corrections version should be specified for production processing.")
+
+            # make sure that amstrax_path contains amstrax_versioned
+            if "amstrax_versioned" not in self.amstrax_path:
+                raise ValueError("amstrax_path should be from amstrax_versioned for production processing.")
+
+            # only xamsdata user can process production data
+            if getpass.getuser() != "xamsdata":
+                raise PermissionError("Only xamsdata user can process production data.")
+
 
     def add_data_entry(self, data_type, location, **info):
         """