Inspection Management Software for Eunice
Eunice sits at the centre of the only commercial uranium enrichment in the United States. Urenco USA's National Enrichment Facility, five miles east of town in southeastern Lea County, has run gas-centrifuge cascades since 2010 and holds an annual capacity of 4.3 million SWU, roughly a third of US demand. A 700,000 SWU expansion completes in 2027, and in June 2026 Urenco committed to a further 2.1 million SWU, with initial cascades producing in 2032 and installation running through 2036, taking the site past seven million SWU. Permian gas runs around it: El Paso Natural Gas's Eunice compressor station feeds the interstate system, and Waste Control Specialists' waste site lies just over the Texas line.
Eunice sits at the centre of the only commercial uranium enrichment in the United States. Urenco USA's National Enrichment Facility, five miles east of town in southeastern Lea County, has run gas-centrifuge cascades since 2010 and holds an annual capacity of 4.
3 million SWU, roughly a third of US demand. A 700,000 SWU expansion completes in 2027, and in June 2026 Urenco committed to a further 2.1 million SWU, with initial cascades producing in 2032 and installation running through 2036, taking the site past seven million SWU. Permian gas runs around it: El Paso Natural Gas's Eunice compressor station feeds the interstate system, and Waste Control Specialists' waste site lies just over the Texas line. Operators including Urenco USA National Enrichment Facility, El Paso Natural Gas Eunice compressor station, Waste Control Specialists (Andrews County, Texas) set the pre-qualification bar their contractors inherit. The system of record for that evidence is the ERP, not a spreadsheet a technician maintains between jobs.
Source: Per-city industrial and compliance research file; ASNT SNT-TC-1A employer certification framework
| Factor | What applies | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Sectors served | Nuclear, Pipeline, Manufacturing | Sets which methods, report formats and codes the system must handle |
| Codes audited against | ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR Part 70, 10 CFR Part 21, ASME Section V and Section VIII, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, 49 CFR 192 | Each demands retrievable evidence, not a claim of compliance |
| What must be retrievable on demand | Technician certification currency · equipment calibration status · the report against the asset that generated it | These three are what an auditor asks for first |
| Deployment | Cloud or on-premise · configured to the codes above · offline field capture | Field crews lose connectivity; the record cannot depend on it |
What must an NDT ERP track for inspection firms in Eunice?
Evidence against ASME NQA-1, 10 CFR Part 70, 10 CFR Part 21, ASME Section V and Section VIII, ASNT SNT-TC-1A. That means each technician's certification currency by method and level, each instrument's calibration status on the day it was used, and every inspection report bound to the asset and the job that produced it. An auditor asks for those three before anything else.
Can an inspection company in Eunice run this alongside its existing accounting?
Yes. The ERP owns operations — jobs, technicians, equipment, reports — and pushes finished invoices to the accounting system, which keeps the chart of accounts, tax and reconciliation. For US firms that usually means QuickBooks; the split is documented in the QuickBooks integration guide rather than forcing a migration nobody asked for.
Does it work offline for field crews in Eunice?
Yes. Field capture runs offline and syncs when the device reconnects, because turnaround decks, tank interiors and remote sites have no usable signal and a record that depends on connectivity is a record that gets rewritten from memory hours later. Offline capture is the difference between a contemporaneous record and a reconstruction.
How long does implementation take for a firm in Eunice?
The configuration follows the codes and workflows above rather than a fixed template, so the timeline is set by how much existing data has to be migrated and cleaned — certification records and calibration history are the two that consume the time. Firms usually run the first job cycle in parallel before cutting over.
What happens to inspection records if a technician leaves?
They stay with the asset and the job, which is the point. Employer-based certification ends when the holder leaves, but the reports they signed remain part of the asset's inspection history and are still auditable. A system that stores records per technician rather than per asset loses that history on every departure.
Related: the NDT ERP overview, personnel certification tracking, equipment calibration tracking, QuickBooks integration and the RFP requirements checklist. Firms preparing for an audit should also read the NDT programme gap assessment.
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