Affordable NDT ERP in Atlanta — Fully Customizable, Every Business App You Need Included

NDT software in Atlanta: an aerospace, power and construction market

Atlanta's inspection market does not look like Houston's, and the software an Atlanta NDT company needs reflects that. The busiest airport in the country sits on the south side of the city, and Delta TechOps runs one of the largest airline maintenance operations in North America at Hartsfield-Jackson. Lockheed Martin builds the C-130J in Marietta. Southern Company and Georgia Power are headquartered downtown, and their fleet includes Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, where Units 3 and 4 were the first new nuclear units built in the United States in decades, along with Plant Hatch, Plant Bowen and Plant Scherer. Colonial Pipeline is headquartered in Alpharetta. On top of that, metro Atlanta has become one of the country's busiest data centre markets, and the state has pulled in large manufacturing projects such as the Hyundai Metaplant near Savannah and battery plants across Georgia, all of which mean structural steel, pipe spools and welds to inspect.

So the typical Atlanta NDT contractor is often split between two worlds: aerospace work under customer and FAA-driven quality requirements, where eddy current, penetrant and ultrasonic dominate, and industrial and construction work, where radiography, UT, MT and visual weld inspection carry the load. Regulators set the frame: the FAA and the aerospace primes' own quality systems, the NRC at nuclear sites, Georgia's Environmental Protection Division radioactive materials program for your radiography licence (Georgia is an NRC Agreement State), PHMSA for pipeline operators, and the boiler and pressure vessel section of the Georgia Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner. One system has to serve both sides of the business.

ERP for NDT companies in Atlanta: the short answer

The Atlantis ERP solution is a fully customized ERP for NDT and inspection companies, set up and supported by Atlantis NDT, whose founder Anoop Rayavarapu is an ASNT NDT Level III. It runs your quotes, jobs, technicians, equipment, reports and invoices in one place, configured for how an Atlanta contractor mixes aerospace and industrial work. It is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, with pricing on request.

The value for an Atlanta company is that the two sides of the business stop living in separate systems. The same technician record shows an aerospace eddy current certification and an industrial RT certification. The same equipment register holds the eddy current instrument and its reference standards alongside the radiography crawler. The same dispatch board shows a crew at a hangar and a crew on a data centre site. Each capability is a separate app you can switch on as needed; the full list is on the ERP apps page. The sections below go through the apps that matter most in Atlanta and apply each one to real local work.

Technician certification tracking software for aerospace and industrial crews

The Certificates app records every technician's certifications by scheme, level and method, and computes status automatically as active, expiring soon (90 days), expired or revoked. For an Atlanta company with technicians qualified under different schemes for aerospace and industrial clients, it keeps every qualification visible in one list with its own expiry.

Built-in schemes are SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN and CSWIP, and anything else, including aerospace qualification schemes that your aerospace clients require, can be recorded under the other scheme with its own dates, certifying body and attachments. Each record carries the level from trainee to Level III, the method, issue, expiry and renewal dates, industry sector, OJT hours, training hours and exam results. Examination sheets store general, specific and practical scores against a passing score that defaults to 70 percent, with the exam files attached, so your written practice records are in one place when an aerospace auditor asks for them.

Vision tests are tracked separately with near vision at Jaeger J1 or J2, far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic and expiry. The employee profile adds radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry for your radiographers. Daily checks raise warning tasks 90 days out, email alerts go to the people you choose, and timesheets warn if someone logs work under a lapsed certificate. The ERP records and alerts; your Level III and written practice still decide qualification.

Calibration management software for eddy current, UT and radiography equipment

Asset Management tracks each instrument, probe and source-related item by serial number with calibration frequency and status, and Team Assignments warns when out-of-calibration equipment is assigned to a job. In an Atlanta shop, that covers eddy current instruments and probes for aerospace work alongside UT flaw detectors, yokes and radiography equipment for industrial sites.

Each item carries equipment type, asset tag, firmware, accessories, assigned person, condition and lifecycle: new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired or disposed. Calibration records hold provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, result (pass, fail or conditional) and next due date. The calibration certificate register stores the lab accreditation number and the certificate PDF with a valid, expiring or expired status and expiry alerts. Aerospace customers ask to see traceable calibration during audits, and this puts the answer one search away.

Issue and return goes through supervisor and manager approval with condition noted each way. Reservations stop two jobs claiming the same unit. The maintenance log records preventive, corrective and repair work, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacements with condition before and after. Consumables such as penetrant, developer, cleaner, magnetic particles and couplant carry reorder levels and a low-stock flag, which matters when a penetrant line runs through material quickly. In Purchase, calibration labs are set up as a vendor type with accreditation number and expiry.

Crew dispatch and scheduling software for metro Atlanta and statewide jobs

Team Assignments runs each job through planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates and mobilisation and demobilisation dates. It blocks double-booking of both technicians and equipment serial numbers, so the same ET technician cannot be sent to a hangar and a power plant on the same shift.

Atlanta dispatch is a traffic problem as much as a people problem. A crew might be at a data centre build in Douglas County, a hangar at Hartsfield-Jackson, a fabricator in Gainesville and a plant outage hours away in Burke County. The availability calendar shows assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable, and overlaps are blocked. Approved Time Off flows into the same calendar. Each technician shows current assignment, utilisation percentage and next available date, and the calendar, kanban and list views let a dispatcher plan the week and an owner see where the crew actually is.

The Fleet app records each vehicle's purpose, whether it can carry radioactive sources, the transport licence number and expiry, and assignment to a project and driver with dates and mileage. For radiography crews working construction sites around the perimeter, that keeps the source vehicle tied to the right job and the right driver.

NDT reporting software for Atlanta's method mix

The NDT Reports app covers 17 report types with separate numbering: UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, IRIS, PAUT, MFL, TOFD, PWHT, PMI, hardness, UT thickness, ferrite, holiday and coating, and computed radiography. An Atlanta contractor can issue an eddy current report for a hangar client and a radiography report for a structural weld from the same system.

Method-specific fields are built in: UT with a probe calibration table; RT with source, technique, IQI type and placement; MT technique and particle type; PT method and developer, which is the core of most penetrant work; PAUT focal laws; UT thickness readings by direction; and weld or job lines with defect type and orientation. Each report ends with an overall result of acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks, and references the work order, request, WPS, contract, drawing numbers, procedure and standard.

The workflow runs draft, in progress, review, approved and sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures plus the third-party or authorized inspector name and signature. Templates are versioned company templates in Excel, Word, PDF or HTML with logo and header; when a general contractor or aerospace client requires its own Excel form, fields map to cells and fill automatically. The offline field app keeps working inside hangars and steel-framed buildings with poor signal, stores drafts and photos, captures signatures and syncs later. For reporting on its own, see Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Procedure control for aerospace and construction clients

The Procedures app keeps a controlled register with document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard such as ASME Section V, acceptance criteria and the procedure text or file. Approved revisions are locked and each revision keeps a snapshot, so you can show which revision was in force on any job.

Aerospace clients and nuclear construction both audit procedure control hard. The workflow runs draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published, with rejected and archived states, recording who prepared, reviewed and approved each revision and when. Rejections carry a reason, and approvers get email notifications and reminders so a revised penetrant procedure is not stuck waiting. Methods covered include UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ET, TOFD, PAUT, leak testing, acoustic emission, hardness, PMI and computed and digital radiography.

An AI-assisted first draft can produce a starting procedure from the method, material and standard, falling back to a built-in template. A Level III still reviews and approves before anything is published. NCR and CAPA workflows can be configured during implementation, which suits Atlanta contractors whose aerospace customers expect corrective actions to be tracked to closure.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for Atlanta contracts

Quotations include job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, with NDT services flagged by method and category, a branded quote PDF, online acceptance and signature, and conversion to a sales order. Invoices then draw on the job's timesheets, equipment and consumables without re-keying.

Atlanta billing is varied: day rates for plant outages, hourly call-outs for construction inspection, and piece or lot pricing for shop penetrant and eddy current work. The invoice header records the NDT project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with subtotals for labour, equipment and consumables. Lines carry cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours. Timesheets record work type (inspection, travel, standby, setup), billable flag, rate multiplier and the equipment serial, so standby time waiting for a contractor to clear a weld area is billed rather than lost. Field expenses and per diems can be re-billed through the Expenses app.

The financial dashboard gives revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, outstanding invoices, bills and expenses over 12 months. Taxes and payment terms are configured during implementation, and the open REST API connects to QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP or other systems that accept API connections, scoped per implementation.

Winning more Atlanta work: CRM, business cards and dashboards

The CRM stores service line, lead source, NDT service type, industry sector, site country, and estimated technicians and days, and scores leads from 0 to 100 as hot, warm, nurture or cold. For an Atlanta company chasing data centre GCs, aerospace suppliers and utility vendors at the same time, that sorting is the point.

Import leads from CSV, preview AI-personalised emails, and enrol leads in drip sequences by service line with pause, resume and unsubscribe. The Business Cards feature turns a photo of a card from an industry event into a CRM lead in one click, and website enquiry forms feed the same pipeline. Dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certifications expiring and expired, and issued equipment overdue for return, alongside the financial view.

Implementing the Atlantis ERP in Atlanta

Atlantis NDT implements remotely and schedules the work around Eastern time, so your crews keep working while the system is built.

1. Discovery. We map your aerospace and industrial service lines, methods, report formats and dispatch process.
2. Data load. Technicians, certifications under every scheme, vision tests, instruments, calibration history, clients and open jobs come across from your spreadsheets.
3. Configuration. Report templates, numbering, the procedure register, quote and invoice layouts, alert recipients and integrations are set up.
4. Pilot. One aerospace job and one industrial job run end to end, quote to invoice.
5. Go live and support. The rest of the company moves over, with Atlantis available for changes.

Anything not built in, such as a customer-specific approval step or an extra report field, is configured during implementation. If you want structured learning for trainees, the eLearning portal and the Practical NDT 3D simulator can be added, and Atlantis offers ASNT SNT-TC-1A-based NDT training.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP for an Atlanta NDT company

Affordable customizable ERP for inspection companies in Atlanta

If your Atlanta NDT company is running aerospace work in one set of files and industrial work in another, the Atlantis ERP brings both into one system built for inspection. It is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, sized for small NDT companies and for growing contractors, with pricing on request.

See it with your own work: bring a recent eddy current or radiography report and we will show how it would run. Book an Atlanta ERP demo or request a quote for your Atlanta inspection company. For plant owners and large assets, Atlantis Digital Twins places inspection data, indication maps and thickness trends on a 3D model.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for an Atlanta company doing aerospace and industrial work?

Look for one system that handles certifications under several schemes, calibration, dispatch, reporting and invoicing. The Atlantis ERP does that and is configured around your service lines during implementation.

Can it record aerospace qualification schemes?

Yes. SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN and CSWIP are built in, and other schemes are recorded under the other scheme with their own dates and alerts.

Does it have an eddy current report?

Yes. ECT is one of 17 report types, alongside IRIS, PAUT, TOFD, RT, PT and others, each with its own numbering.

Is it suitable for small NDT companies in Atlanta?

Yes. You choose the apps you need and the setup is scaled to your crew. Pricing is quote on request.

Can it integrate with our accounting or client systems?

Yes. The open REST API integrates with QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Maximo or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation.

Does Atlantis offer NDT training?

Atlantis offers ASNT SNT-TC-1A-based NDT training. The ERP can record other certificates your technicians hold.

How do we start?

Tell us how you run jobs today and we will set up a demo. Ask a question about the Atlantis ERP in Atlanta.