NDT Reports: NDT Report Software Built Into Atlantis NDT ERP

Method-specific NDT inspection reports, captured in the field and issued from the ERP. Request a demo. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable. Quote on request.

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Why NDT reports still eat your week

Most NDT companies don't have a reporting problem on the job. The technician finds the indication, sizes it, and knows whether it passes. The problem starts after that. Readings go into a notebook or onto a wet clipboard. Someone in the office re-types them into a Word template that three different people have edited over the years. The Level II signs, the Level III reviews a printout, and the client gets a PDF three days after the scan.

Every hand-off is a place where a thickness reading gets transposed, a probe serial gets copied from last week's job, or the wrong acceptance standard is left in the header. Clients notice. Third-party inspectors notice. And when an auditor asks which calibration block was used on a weld inspected eight months ago, the answer is in a filing cabinet somewhere.

The NDT Reports app in Atlantis NDT ERP is built to close those gaps. It captures method-specific data at the source, routes each report through inspector, reviewer and approver sign-off, and produces the report in your company's own template. It sits inside the same ERP that runs your jobs, technicians, equipment and invoices, so the report stays connected to the work order that created it instead of floating in a shared drive.

It is affordable, accessible and fully customizable. Pricing is quote on request, based on the scope you need.

17 report types, each with its own fields and numbering

A UT report and an RT report are not the same document with a different title. They record different things, and a generic inspection form forces technicians to squeeze radiography details into free-text boxes. NDT Reports ships with 17 report types, each with its own data structure and its own numbering sequence.

Every report ends with an overall result: acceptable, not acceptable, or acceptable with remarks. That three-way result matters more than it looks. Acceptable with remarks lets a Level II record a condition the client should know about without failing the item, and it shows clearly on the report instead of being buried in a comment.

Separate numbering per method means your UT and RT sequences never collide, and a client who asks for all the PT reports on one unit gets a clean sequence rather than a mixed list.

How a report moves from the field to the client

Every report follows the same five-stage workflow. The stages are simple on purpose. Anyone in the office can see where a report sits and who is holding it up.

1. Draft: the job exists and the report is opened against it, usually from the work order, with the job references already filled in.
2. In progress: the technician is capturing readings, photos and weld lines, in the field app or on a laptop at the site office.
3. Review: the inspector submits, and the reviewer, usually a Level II or Level III, checks technique, coverage, sizing and the acceptance standard.
4. Approved: the approver signs. On client and code work, this is where the third-party or authorized inspector's name and signature are recorded as well.
5. Sent: the report goes out in your template, and the record shows it has left the building.

Signatures are captured for the inspector, reviewer and approver, so the PDF shows who did what. There is also a field for a third-party inspector or authorized inspector, with name and signature, for jobs where the client's inspector witnesses or verifies the work.

Because the stages are tracked, the questions that normally take a phone call get answered on screen: which reports from last week's shutdown are still in review, which are approved but not sent, and which technician has three drafts open.

Capture in the field, even without signal

Tank farms, pipe racks, ship holds and remote pipeline spreads have one thing in common: bad signal. A reporting tool that needs a live connection gets abandoned on day one, and the notebook comes back out.

The NDT Reports field app is an installable web app. You add it to a tablet or phone like any other app, and it works offline. Drafts and photos are stored on the device and sync when the connection returns. On the device the technician gets:

• A method picker, so the right report type and fields open for the job
• Photo capture straight into the report
• An on-screen signature
• A PDF preview before submitting, so the technician sees what the reviewer and client will see

Behind the field app is a REST API that serves the device the jobs assigned to that technician and the equipment issued to them, accepts report submissions, and handles sync. In practice, the technician opens the app in the morning and sees their jobs and their issued instrument and probes, not a blank form.

It also means the equipment on the report comes from what was actually issued to that technician, not from memory. That one detail removes a common audit finding, where the instrument named on the report was sitting in the calibration lab on the day of the inspection.

References, templates and the report your client receives

A report that cannot be traced back to the contract, drawing and procedure is a weak report. NDT Reports captures the references clients and auditors ask for:

• Work order and client request number
• Contract and drawing numbers
• WPS number for weld inspections
• Procedure reference and the code or standard used for acceptance

The output uses your templates, not ours. Company templates are versioned and can be Excel, Word, PDF or HTML, with your logo, header and footer. If your clients are used to an Excel-format report, the app fills Excel templates automatically by mapping report fields to cells, so the layout they recognise stays the same while the re-typing stops. Each method also has its own PDF output.

Versioning matters when a client changes its required format halfway through a contract. You add a new template version instead of overwriting the old one, so there is a record of which format was in use and when.

When a client queries a result a year later, the report tells them which procedure and standard were applied, without anyone opening an archive box.

Marine mode for class surveys and ship repair

Marine NDT has its own paperwork. A report for a hull or machinery survey usually needs a vessel cover page, the classification-society certificate, the inspector's qualification and the calibration certificate for the instrument, all in one pack.

NDT Reports has a marine mode for this. It adds a vessel cover page with the vessel photo, inspection location and dates. When the PDF is produced, it merges in:

• The classification-society certificate, chosen from a library that covers DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas, RINA, IRS and ClassNK
• The inspector's Level II certificate
• The calibration certificate of the instrument used

Inspection photos are laid out in a two-up grid, so a thickness survey with dozens of photos stays readable instead of running to one photo per page.

For a ship repair yard or a marine inspection company, this removes the most tedious part of the job: hunting for the right certificate PDFs, printing them, and scanning the whole pack back together. The surveyor gets one document with everything attached, in a consistent order, every time.

Hull gauging uses the same UT thickness report type, with readings by direction, that your team uses onshore, so nobody has to learn a separate tool for marine work. If you work mostly onshore, marine mode simply stays out of the way.

Featured companion: Digital Twin Reporting Software

The NDT Reports app produces the formal, signed report. Some asset owners want more than that: they want to see where on the asset each finding sits, and how findings in one area relate to the rest of the plant.

That is what Digital Twin Reporting Software is for. It is a separate Atlantis NDT product that places inspection results on a 3D model of the asset. It works alongside the ERP's NDT Reports app: the ERP handles the job, the technician, the equipment, the workflow and the signed report, and the digital twin reporting product gives the client a visual, spatial view of the results.

Why an NDT company would offer both:

• A plant manager can find the weld or nozzle on the model rather than reading grid references off a drawing
• Repeat inspections on the same asset are easier to compare when results sit in the same place on the model
• It sets your service apart in a tender where most competitors deliver PDFs only
• Your team keeps working in the ERP they already use for reporting

To be clear about the split: the ERP app does not build 3D models or digital twins. It is the reporting and workflow engine. The 3D view is the companion product, scoped separately. You can start with NDT Reports and add digital twin reporting later, or ask for both in one quote.

Who uses it, day to day

• Field technicians (Level I and II): open assigned jobs on a tablet, pick the method, record readings, weld lines and defects, take photos, sign and submit, online or offline.
• Level III and reviewers: work through the review queue, check technique and acceptance references, and approve or send back, with a clear record of who signed.
• Operations and QA/QC managers: see which reports are stuck in review, which are approved but unsent, and which jobs still have no report at all.
• Office and admin staff: stop re-typing. Maintain templates, send approved reports, and answer client queries from the record.
• Third-party and authorized inspectors: have their name and signature captured on the report when they witness or verify the work.
• Owners and directors: get a reporting process that holds up in audits and client prequalification, without buying a separate reporting system that doesn't talk to the rest of the business.

Everyone works from the same record. The technician's readings, the reviewer's comments and the approver's signature all live on one report, not in three email threads.

Who can create, review and approve is set by role during implementation, in line with your written practice. If you are still defining who is allowed to sign what, our NDT consulting team can help write that into your procedures before the software is configured.

How NDT Reports connects to the rest of the ERP

NDT Reports is one app in Atlantis NDT ERP, and its value grows when it is connected to the others. You can browse them all on the ERP apps page.

• Projects: the NDT job, with site, client PO, methods, codes, scope and acceptance criteria, is where the work order on the report comes from. Tasks carry method, technician, component, result, and procedure and WPS references.
• Certificates: technician certifications, levels and expiry dates are recorded on the employee's NDT profile, and timesheets warn when a technician's certificate is not valid.
• Asset Management: instruments and probes are tracked by serial number with calibration records, which is how the field app knows what equipment is issued to whom.
• Procedures: the register holds approved, revision-controlled procedures, the same ones referenced on the report.
• Team Assignments: jobs are dispatched to technicians, and double-booking of people and equipment serials is blocked.
• Invoicing: timesheet hours and job references feed billing, so an approved report and an invoice point to the same job.

None of this is mandatory on day one. Some companies start with NDT Reports and Certificates and add the rest over time. Others move the whole business at once. Both work. Because the ERP is, standard modules for accounting, HR and purchasing sit in the same system rather than in separate subscriptions.

What implementation looks like

Atlantis NDT deploys and sets up the ERP for you. A typical NDT Reports rollout runs like this:

1. Discovery: we look at your current reports, method by method, and at the formats your main clients demand.
2. Template build: your Word, Excel or PDF layouts are loaded as versioned templates, with Excel fields mapped to cells where you use Excel.
3. Numbering and roles: report numbering per method is set to your convention, and inspector, reviewer and approver roles are assigned.
4. Field app rollout: technicians install the field app on their tablets or phones, and we walk through an offline job with them.
5. Connected apps: jobs, technicians and equipment are linked so the field app shows the right assignments and issued equipment.
6. Go-live and adjustment: the first weeks of real reports usually surface small template changes. Those are part of the setup.

Anything your company needs that is not in the standard app, such as an extra field your biggest client insists on or a layout for a client-specific form, is agreed as part of the customization scope. That is the point of a fully customizable system: it fits the way you work instead of forcing a new one.

Pricing depends on scope, number of users and how many apps you take, and it is quote on request. Request an NDT Reports quote and tell us which methods you report most.

Frequently asked questions

Which NDT methods does the report software cover?

Seventeen report types: UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, IRIS, PAUT, MFL, TOFD, PWHT, PMI, hardness, UT thickness, ferrite, holiday/coating and computed radiography. Each has its own numbering sequence and method-specific fields, such as the probe calibration table for UT, IQI type and placement for RT, and focal laws for PAUT.

Can technicians write reports without internet?

Yes. The field app is an installable web app that works offline. Drafts and photos are stored on the device and sync when a connection is available. Technicians can pick the method, capture photos, sign on screen and preview the PDF before submitting.

Can we keep our existing report formats?

Yes. Company templates can be Excel, Word, PDF or HTML, with your logo, header and footer, and they are versioned. Excel templates are filled automatically by mapping report fields to cells, so clients keep receiving the layout they know.

Does the NDT Reports app build digital twins?

No. The ERP app handles report capture, workflow, sign-off and output. Digital Twin Reporting Software is a separate Atlantis NDT product that places inspection results on a 3D model of the asset and works alongside the ERP app. You can take either or both.

Who signs the report?

The inspector, reviewer and approver each sign within the workflow, and there is a field for a third-party or authorized inspector's name and signature. Which of your staff can hold each role is set during implementation to match your written practice.

Can it handle class society reports for ships?

Yes. Marine mode adds a vessel cover page and merges the classification-society certificate, the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate into the PDF, with inspection photos in a two-up grid.

How much does it cost?

There is no list price. Atlantis NDT ERP is affordable and quoted to your scope: the apps you take, the number of users and the customization you need.

See it with your own reports

The fastest way to judge reporting software is to see one of your own reports come out of it. Send us a sample UT or RT report you issue today, redacted if you like, and we will show you how it looks when built in NDT Reports, from the field app to the signed PDF.

Book an NDT Reports demo, and ask about pairing it with Digital Twin Reporting Software if your clients want to see results on a 3D model of their assets.

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Works with

• Certificates: Technician certifications, eye tests and expiry tracking against your written practice.
• Procedures: Controlled NDT procedures and techniques with revisions and approvals.
• Dashboards: KPI dashboards across jobs, reports, certifications and revenue.

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