NDT Inspection Management Software for Inspection Companies in Denmark

Short answer: The Atlantis ERP solution is a fully customized ERP for NDT and inspection companies working in Denmark. It holds EN ISO 9712 certificates and ASNT SNT-TC-1A or CP-189 records for each technician with automatic expiry status, controls calibration on every instrument, plans crews for offshore wind, North Sea, refinery and power-plant work, captures reports offline and runs quotation, timesheet and invoice on one system. Implementation is remote and typically takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, depending on how clean your existing records are. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable. Request a Denmark demo.

Danish inspection work swings between two very different worlds. On one side are the energy transition industries that Denmark is known for: offshore wind farms, turbine and blade factories, and the ports that service them. On the other side are the older energy assets that still need careful attention: North Sea gas and oil platforms, two refineries, combined heat and power plants and kilometres of district heating pipe. A Danish NDT company can easily send one crew to a monopile weld in a fabrication hall and another to a turnaround at a refinery in the same week, with different clients, different codes and different paperwork. This page looks at what that means for the system you run the company on.

Where NDT work comes from in Denmark

Direct answer: Danish NDT demand comes from offshore wind (Esbjerg and the west coast ports, turbine and blade manufacturing in Jutland), North Sea oil and gas, the Kalundborg and Fredericia refineries, combined heat and power and district heating, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and shipbuilding, ship repair and heavy fabrication.

Offshore wind and Esbjerg. The Port of Esbjerg is one of Europe's main bases for installing and servicing offshore wind farms, and Denmark has built offshore wind since the earliest projects in the 1990s. Vestas has its headquarters in Aarhus and Siemens Gamesa has major operations in Brande and a blade factory in Aalborg, so turbine components, towers and flanges are made and inspected in Jutland. Thor, a large wind farm off the west coast of Jutland, adds construction and later service work. Foundations, transition pieces and towers mean long seam and circumferential welds that need UT or PAUT, MT on attachments, and dimensional and visual checks, all with heavy documentation requirements from developers and certifying bodies.

North Sea oil and gas. Denmark's offshore fields are operated mainly out of Esbjerg, and the Tyra hub was rebuilt and brought back into production in 2024. Offshore platforms, risers, pipelines and topsides equipment generate in-service inspection campaigns that run on tight logistics: helicopter seats, bed space, permits and short weather windows.

Refining. Kalundborg Refinery, owned by Klesch, is Denmark's largest, and the Fredericia refinery is operated by Crossbridge Energy. Both run turnarounds and day-to-day inspection on vessels, exchangers, furnaces, piping and tankage.

Power, heat and industry. Large combined heat and power plants around Copenhagen, Aarhus and Kalundborg run boilers and steam systems, many converted from coal to biomass, and Danish cities are served by extensive district heating networks whose welded steel pipes need inspection when they are laid and when they are repaired. Kalundborg is also home to major pharmaceutical manufacturing, and pharma and food plants run stainless process piping and pressure equipment.

Maritime and fabrication. Denmark has a long shipping tradition and an active ship repair and conversion sector, including the yard at Lindø near Odense, which also serves offshore wind. Steel fabricators across Jutland and Funen build structures, pressure equipment and process skids for export.

What Danish clients and developers ask NDT vendors for

Direct answer: Expect requests for EN ISO 9712 certificates (and ASNT-based certification on US-owned or US-code projects), approved procedures, traceable calibration, method-specific reports in the client's format, offshore training and medical records, and often ISO/IEC 17020 or 17025 accreditation through DANAK.

Offshore wind developers and their EPC contractors run detailed quality plans. A weld inspection report on a transition piece is expected to name the procedure and revision, the technician and their certificate, the instrument and probe serial numbers with calibration status, the acceptance standard and the result, and it will be reviewed by the client and often by a third-party certifier. The same is true on North Sea platforms, where operators also want proof of offshore safety training and medical fitness before anyone gets a seat on a helicopter.

Pressure equipment work in Denmark sits under the Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet), whose rules require periodic inspection of pressure equipment in use by an inspection body accredited by DANAK or another accreditation body in the European multilateral agreement. NDT companies often perform the testing that supports those inspections, which means the inspection body will look closely at your procedures, certificates and calibration evidence. New pressure equipment built for the European market falls under the Pressure Equipment Directive, which requires NDT personnel on category III and IV equipment to be approved by a recognised third-party organisation.

US-owned operators and suppliers, and projects built to ASME, API or AWS codes, often ask for ASNT-based certification under the employer's written practice. That is where Atlantis's background as an ASNT Level III-led consultancy helps; the ERP itself records whichever schemes your technicians hold.

What the Atlantis ERP does for NDT companies in Denmark

Direct answer: The Atlantis ERP handles technician certificates, vision tests, instrument calibration and issue, crew assignment, offline reports, procedures, quotations, timesheets and invoicing. The table below shows how common Danish needs map to built-in features; anything not listed is configured during implementation.

More detail is on the ERP apps page: team assignments, certificates, fleet and timesheets. The product overview is on the Atlantis ERP page.

Tracking EN ISO 9712 and ASNT certificates for Danish technicians

Direct answer: Every certificate is its own record, so an EN ISO 9712 Level 2 in UT and an SNT-TC-1A employer certification in UT for the same person are tracked separately with their own dates, attachments and alerts. Vision tests sit in their own records with their own expiry.

Danish NDT technicians usually hold EN ISO 9712 certificates from an accredited certification body, which may be in Denmark or elsewhere in Europe; PCN certificates are also common among technicians who have worked in the UK North Sea. Contractors working on US-code projects add employer-based certification under SNT-TC-1A or CP-189. Welding inspectors may hold international welding qualifications or CSWIP. The ERP holds all of them without pretending one is a substitute for another; which scheme a given client accepts is set in their contract.

Each certificate record holds scheme, level (trainee, I, II or III), method, certifying body, industry sector, issue, expiry and renewal dates, OJT and training hours, exam result and attachments. Certificate templates per scheme set the validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is required, and minimum OJT and training hours. Vision tests record near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic and expiry, because a lapsed annual eye test can stop a technician from working even when the certificate itself is current.

The ERP's daily checks create warning tasks 90 days before a certificate or vision test expires, and timesheets warn when someone books time against a job while their certificate is not valid. That second check catches the case nobody plans for: a technician who was valid when the job was planned but whose certificate lapsed during a long offshore campaign. Menus for Expiring Soon and Expired give the quality manager a one-click list before every audit.

For companies that certify their own staff under an SNT-TC-1A written practice, the ERP stores exam sheets with general, specific and practical scores against a passing score. Writing the written practice itself is consulting work; see written practice development.

Radiography, pressure equipment and data rules in Denmark

Direct answer: Use of radioactive sources and X-ray equipment for industrial radiography is regulated by the Danish Health Authority's radiation protection function (often called SIS) under the Radiation Protection Act. Pressure equipment in use is regulated by Arbejdstilsynet with inspections by accredited bodies. GDPR and the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) govern personal data in technician records.

The ERP does not replace your radiation protection programme or your permits, but it holds the records that change daily. Employee profiles carry radiation safety training and dose badge numbers. Source-related equipment is tracked by serial number with issue, return and movement records. Fleet records show whether a vehicle may carry radioactive sources, its transport licence number and expiry, and which project and driver it is assigned to with dates and mileage.

For pressure equipment, Danish rules distinguish routine inspections and more thorough internal and external examinations at set periods, carried out by accredited inspection bodies. NDT companies supporting those examinations need fast retrieval: every report for a given client, site or item, with procedure and standard references, signed and approved. Reports in the ERP capture work order, request, drawing, WPS, contract, procedure and standard references, so they can be found by any of them.

Data residency and access rights are common questions from Danish clients and from employees' representatives. Where data is hosted, which roles can see medical and eye-test data, and how long records are kept are discussed during scoping and configured during implementation. If a public-sector client requires electronic invoices through NemHandel in the OIOUBL format, raise it during scoping; invoicing, Danish VAT and payment terms are configured during implementation.

A Danish-language interface for technicians or office staff is discussed during scoping. Most Danish NDT companies we would expect to speak to already work in English on offshore and export projects, but the question is worth asking early.

Offshore and wind logistics: equipment, crews and offline reports

Direct answer: Offshore and wind work punishes poor planning. The ERP blocks double-booking of people and instrument serial numbers, warns on out-of-calibration kit, tracks who has which instrument, and lets technicians report offline on a platform or in a turbine tower and sync later.

A campaign on an offshore wind farm or a North Sea platform usually means a fixed crew list, a fixed kit list and a narrow window. If a phased-array instrument is still booked to a fabrication job in Esbjerg, or one technician's medical fitness has lapsed, the campaign is in trouble before it starts. In the ERP, the technician availability calendar shows assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable days with overlaps blocked, and each technician shows utilisation, current assignment and next available date. Equipment reservations prevent clashes, and the issue workflow records who took which instrument, in what condition, with whose approval.

Calibration records carry provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, result and next due date. Consumables such as couplant, magnetic ink, penetrant and PPE are tracked with reorder levels so a crew does not reach the quay without them. The maintenance log records preventive and corrective work, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement with condition before and after.

Out at the asset, the installable offline field app works without signal: pick the method, record readings and indications, take photos, sign on screen and preview the PDF. Drafts and photos are stored on the device and synced when a connection returns. Reports then move through review and approval in the office, with reviewer and approver signatures, before they are sent to the client. For reporting in depth, see Digital Twin Reporting Software; to view inspection results on a 3D model of the asset, see Atlantis Digital Twins.

Implementation for a Danish NDT company

Direct answer: Implementation is remote and typically takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff. How long it really takes depends on how clean your records are: technician certificates, instrument and calibration lists, clients and sites, procedures and report templates.

We start with a scoping call that covers which apps you need, which certification schemes your staff hold, which clients dictate report formats, how you quote and invoice, and the data and language questions above. You send what you already have, even if it is messy: certificate spreadsheets, instrument registers, client lists and sample reports. Atlantis configures certificate templates per scheme, alert recipients and look-ahead days, report templates with your branding, quotation and invoice layouts, VAT and payment settings, and user access by role. Office staff, supervisors and technicians get short, role-based training, and the first live jobs run with support available.

The most common delay is certificate data: scanned certificates in email, expiry dates missing, two spreadsheets that disagree. Cleaning that up pays off immediately, because the alerts are only as good as the dates behind them. Larger groups with several business units or integrations agree a longer plan during scoping. See the implementation timeline for a step-by-step version.

Integrations: finance, client systems and field devices

Direct answer: The Atlantis ERP has an open REST API and integrates with SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections. Integrations are scoped per implementation, so you only build the links that save real work.

Danish inspection companies most often ask about two links. One is to an existing finance system, where approved invoices or timesheet totals are sent across so accounting can stay where it is. The other is to clients' maintenance systems: energy operators and large manufacturers often run SAP or Maximo, and receiving work-order numbers automatically, or returning report references, removes a lot of retyping. The REST API for field devices also exposes the jobs assigned to a technician, the equipment issued to them, report submission and sync. See the integration matrix for typical data exchanged with each system.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP for Danish inspection firms

Direct answer: Spreadsheets break down on certificate and calibration control once you have more than a handful of technicians. Generic ERP handles finance but knows nothing about NDT methods, schemes or calibration. The Atlantis ERP starts with those records built in and is configured around your process.

When comparing NDT software vendors, ask each one to show the same three things on your own data: a technician with two schemes, an expired certificate blocked or flagged at timesheet, and an out-of-calibration instrument flagged at assignment. For wider reading, see NDT ERP vs generic ERP and inspection management software.

Atlantis ERP across Denmark and the North Sea region

Direct answer: The Atlantis ERP is delivered remotely, so it serves companies in Esbjerg, Aarhus, Aalborg, Fredericia, Odense, Kalundborg, Copenhagen and anywhere else in Denmark. Neighbouring market pages cover Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.

Danish NDT companies frequently work across the North Sea basin. See NDT ERP in Norway with pages for Stavanger, Bergen and Oslo; Germany with Wilhelmshaven; the Netherlands with Rotterdam; and the UK with Aberdeen. For the Baltic side, see Gdansk and Porvoo. Marine and offshore context is on marine and offshore NDT.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for a Danish inspection company?

Look for a system that tracks EN ISO 9712 and ASNT certificates per technician, links calibration to dispatch, works offline offshore, and invoices standby and travel correctly. The Atlantis ERP does all four, and a demo on your own records is the quickest test.

Can the ERP track EN ISO 9712 certificates from any certification body?

Yes. ISO 9712 is a scheme in the certificate record, and the certifying body is a field, so certificates from Danish or other European bodies are recorded the same way.

Can we track ASNT certification for US-code projects as well?

Yes. SNT-TC-1A and CP-189 certificates are separate records alongside ISO 9712, each with its own expiry and alerts.

Does it track offshore medicals and safety training?

Medical fitness expiry is on each employee's NDT profile with warnings. Other offshore training certificates can be stored as certificates or company certifications with alert days, configured during implementation.

Can technicians report offline on a platform or inside a turbine?

Yes. The installable field app stores drafts and photos on the device and syncs when a connection returns.

Does the ERP support marine reports for classification societies?

Yes. Marine mode adds a vessel cover page and merges the class-society certificate, the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate into one PDF.

Is there a Danish-language version?

Interface language is discussed during scoping. Report templates are your own, so client-facing reports can be laid out in Danish or English as you choose.

Where is our data hosted?

Hosting, access rights and retention are discussed during scoping so they match GDPR and your clients' requirements. Get the answer in writing before you sign.

Can it send OIOUBL invoices?

Invoicing, Danish VAT and payment terms are configured during implementation. Raise any public-sector e-invoicing format during scoping so it is planned in.

How long does implementation take?

Typically 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, remotely, depending on how clean your existing records are.

Does it connect to SAP or Maximo?

Yes, through the open REST API, scoped per implementation.

How much does it cost?

Quote on request, based on the apps, users and integrations you need. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable.

Get a Denmark NDT ERP demo

Tell us how many technicians you run, which schemes they hold, and which clients set your report formats, and we will show the Atlantis ERP doing that work. Book a demo for your Danish NDT company, ask for a quote or talk to us about offshore wind crew planning.

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