ERP Software — Tailored to Your Industry
Atlantis NDT ERP is configured for 12 inspection and service-provider industries. Codes, standards, regulators, operator-specific quality clauses, and workflow are pre-loaded for each industry — not a generic SaaS forced to fit.
The same Atlantis NDT ERP core configures very differently by industry: an aerospace NDT shop needs traceability down to a specific aircraft part and lot number under AS9100 documentation discipline, while an oil & gas inspection provider needs asset-and-equipment-tag tracking against API and ASME code references, with scheduling built around unpredictable turnaround spikes rather than steady part flow.
Both industries run on the same underlying Atlantis modules — job/project tracking, technician certification records, equipment calibration, document control, and invoicing — but the configuration of each module diverges sharply once you get into how records are keyed and how workflows trigger. An aerospace shop configures around part and lot traceability: every inspection record has to trace back to a specific serial-numbered component, often across multiple inspection stages on the same part, with AS9100-grade document retention. An oil & gas inspection provider configures around asset tags and code references instead: records key off a piece of plant equipment or a pipeline segment, cite API 510, API 570, or API 653 as applicable, and the calendar is driven by turnaround and outage windows that create sharp demand spikes rather than a steady, predictable flow of parts through a shop.
Source: AS9100
Configuring One ERP Core for an Aerospace Shop Versus an Oil & Gas Inspection Provider
The traceability unit is the clearest divergence. An aerospace NDT shop's ERP configuration is built around the part: every job ties to a specific aircraft component, serial number, and lot, and an inspection record has to be retrievable by part number months or years later for an audit trail that satisfies AS9100 and the OEM's own quality requirements. An oil & gas inspection provider's configuration is built around the asset instead: a storage tank, a piping circuit, a pressure vessel, or a pipeline segment carries a fixed equipment tag that persists across years of repeat inspections, and the ERP has to accumulate a full inspection history against that tag rather than against a one-time part transaction.
Documentation discipline follows the same split. Aerospace configurations lean on AS9100 traceability and OEM-specific inspection call-outs baked into the workflow, often with tighter revision control on procedures because a single customer's engineering spec can override a general method default. Oil & gas configurations lean on API and ASME code references attached directly to the asset record — API 510 for pressure vessels, API 570 for piping, API 653 for storage tanks — so that a technician pulling up an asset sees which code governs the next inspection interval without cross-referencing a separate written practice document.
Scheduling logic is where the contrast is most operational. An aerospace shop's ERP configuration assumes a relatively steady flow of parts moving through defined inspection stages, so workload planning looks more like a production schedule. An oil & gas provider's configuration has to absorb sharp, predictable-in-timing-but-large-in-volume demand spikes around turnarounds and outages, where dozens of technicians and equipment sets need to be allocated against a compressed window, then scale back down once the outage closes. The same underlying scheduling and certification-tracking modules handle both patterns, but the configuration — how far in advance capacity gets blocked, how equipment is reserved, how technician certifications get checked against the work queued for a given week — is tuned differently for each.
A third contrast makes the pattern clearer still: a power generation or utility inspection provider configures somewhere between the two, tracking outage-driven demand spikes similar to oil & gas, but keying records against a plant unit hierarchy and reporting structure closer to a regulated utility's requirements than to either an aerospace part number or a single equipment tag. The configuration work in each case is the same category of decision — what the ERP treats as the primary traceable unit, and which code or standard gets attached to it by default — applied to a different industry's actual operating rhythm.