Field Service for Construction Quality Assurance — Atlantis NDT Inspection Software

Mobile dispatch and offline data capture for crews working outside network coverage

Overview

Odoo Field Service configured for NDT firms manages crew dispatch, mobile job execution, and data capture for technicians working in refineries, plant turnarounds, and remote/offshore sites where connectivity is unreliable or absent. Dispatch boards show crew location, current job status, and equipment assignment (cross-checked against CMMS calibration status), letting schedulers assign the nearest qualified, in-cal-equipment crew to urgent callouts. The mobile app supports full offline operation — technicians capture inspection data (thickness readings, indication logs, weld maps, photos), complete quality checkpoints, and log time and consumables usage without connectivity, with everything syncing automatically once signal returns, so no field data is lost to a dead zone inside a vessel or a remote pipeline right-of-way. Job checklists are method-specific (a UT thickness survey checklist differs from an MPI weld inspection checklist), pulling the current-revision procedure from Document Control for on-screen reference. Signature capture for client witness/hold points and site safety inductions is built into the mobile workflow. GPS/geofencing can confirm technician presence at the correct asset location for high-value or safety-critical inspections.

Why inspection and testing businesses run it differently

This is where the rest of the ERP becomes real-world usable: a technician standing inside a vessel or on a platform 40 miles offshore with no signal needs the job scope, current procedure revision, and calibration status pre-loaded, and needs to capture UT thickness grid readings or PAUT scan data without losing anything if sync fails. Offline-first mobile capture directly prevents the two most common field data-loss failure modes in NDT — a phone/tablet losing connectivity mid-shift, or the crew working in a Faraday-cage-like vessel interior. Geofenced presence confirmation and client witness-point signature capture also directly support the objective evidence auditors and clients expect for hold-point/witness inspections common in API-code work.

Capabilities

How the workflow runs

A dispatcher assigns a job from the board, with the system filtering eligible technicians by certification/method match and equipment by current calibration status. The technician's mobile app pre-downloads the job scope, current-revision procedure, and checklist before mobilization, or on last available signal, so it's usable even fully offline on site. In the field, they log thickness readings, indication data, photos, and quality checkpoints directly into the app; a client witness point triggers an on-screen signature capture. Time and consumables used are logged against the work order in real time. Once the technician regains connectivity — leaving the vessel, returning to a signal area, or reaching the site office — all captured data syncs automatically to the central system, updating the work order status, triggering the report-draft stage in Project Management, and posting labor/consumables costs to Accounting, with nothing requiring manual transcription from a paper backup.

Standards and compliance covered

Integrations

Measured impact

Offline-first capture has eliminated field data loss incidents from connectivity dead zones, which previously required a subset of crews to fall back to paper capture and re-transcription — a process that introduced transcription errors flagged in roughly 1 in 20 records under the old workflow. Dispatch-stage calibration and certification cross-checking has cut same-day crew-substitution scrambles by a wide margin, since ineligible assignments are caught before mobilization rather than discovered on site. Real-time field-to-report sync has cut typical report-draft turnaround after job completion from 2-3 days to same-day for straightforward scopes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens if a technician captures data inside a vessel with zero signal for an entire shift?

All data is captured and stored locally on the device throughout the offline period; once the device regains any signal, everything syncs automatically in the background with no manual re-entry required.

Does the dispatch system check equipment calibration and crew certification before assigning a job?

Yes. The dispatch board cross-references CMMS calibration status and Certification Tracking eligibility, so schedulers see only qualified technicians with in-calibration equipment as valid assignment options.

Can clients sign off on hold/witness points directly in the field app?

Yes. Witness and hold-point steps in the mobile checklist include on-screen signature capture, timestamped and geofenced where required, creating objective evidence for the inspection record.

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Built for any business that runs on operations

Most companies do not fail at their craft. They lose time, margin and goodwill in the gaps between the tools they use to run the place — a quoting spreadsheet that does not talk to the job sheet, a job sheet that does not reach accounts, and a compliance folder nobody can search when a client asks. Atlantis closes those gaps by putting the whole operation on one platform, so information is entered once and everything downstream stays in step.

What you can run on it

  • Sales and CRM — leads, quotes, follow-ups and the pipeline that tells you what next month looks like.
  • Projects and job costing — plan the work, track the hours and materials against it, and see the margin while the job is still live rather than at final account.
  • Field and service teams — dispatch, schedules, mobile capture that works with no signal, and sign-off from site.
  • Inventory and purchasing — stock, suppliers, reorder points and goods receipt, joined to the jobs that consume them.
  • People — records, qualifications and licences with renewal reminders, timesheets, leave and payroll.
  • Quality and documents — procedures and forms under revision control, with the audit trail an inspection or accreditation body actually asks for.
  • Accounts — invoicing, expenses, multi-currency and the reporting your accountant stops chasing you for.

Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — and we mean each word

Affordable because the whole suite is included rather than sold to you a module at a time, and because implementation is done by people who have run operations rather than by a chain of subcontractors. Accessible because it runs in a browser and on a phone, works for a small team on day one, and does not need a specialist on staff to keep it alive. Fully customizable because your process is the thing that makes you competitive — the software should bend to it, not the other way round.

Industries we configure for

Service businesses and contractors, manufacturing and fabrication, trading and distribution, laboratories and testing houses, engineering consultancies, construction and facilities, and asset owners across energy, marine, aerospace and infrastructure. Inspection and testing is where we started, and it remains the sector we go deepest in — but the platform underneath is general-purpose, and most of what it does has nothing to do with inspection at all.

What happens when you get in touch

A short conversation, not a sales sequence. We ask how the business runs today and where it hurts, show you the platform doing that work, and send a written quote shaped to your region, your team size and the scope you actually need. No obligation, nothing to install first, and no pressure to decide on the call. Reach out and tell us what you are trying to fix.

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