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NDT software in Fort Worth: an aerospace, rail and gas market

NDT software for a Fort Worth inspection company has to handle aerospace-grade documentation, heavy industrial field work and gas-field mobilisation, often inside the same small company. The Atlantis ERP solution brings certificates, instrument calibration, crew dispatch, NDT reports, quoting and invoicing into one system, configured around the clients you actually serve in Tarrant County and the surrounding counties.

Fort Worth is not Dallas with a different skyline. The west side of the Metroplex is shaped by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics at Air Force Plant 4, where the F-35 is built, by Bell Textron's helicopter and tiltrotor operations, by Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, and by the supplier base that feeds them. BNSF Railway is headquartered in Fort Worth, and Alliance Airport and its logistics park bring freight aviation, warehousing and heavy construction to the north. American Airlines' headquarters sits on the city's side of DFW Airport.

Then there is energy. Fort Worth sits on top of the Barnett Shale, and although drilling has slowed from its peak, the gathering lines, compressor stations, saltwater disposal facilities and gas processing that came with it still need inspection. About an hour southwest, Comanche Peak nuclear plant near Glen Rose brings outage work under NRC oversight. Pipeline work answers to PHMSA and the Railroad Commission of Texas, and radiography licences come from the Texas Department of State Health Services. A Fort Worth NDT contractor might have Level IIs doing penetrant and eddy current for an aerospace supplier, a UT crew on a rail car or bridge job, and an RT crew on a gas line, all in one week.

ERP for NDT companies in Fort Worth: the direct answer

An ERP for NDT companies in Fort Worth needs to prove, on demand, that the right technician with the right certificate used a calibrated instrument under an approved procedure revision. The Atlantis NDT ERP holds that chain in one place: certificates, asset management, procedures, team assignments and NDT reports all share the same technician, instrument and job records.

Aerospace customers and their auditors look for that chain in detail, and so do nuclear and power clients. Oil and gas clients care more about speed and paperwork completeness on the day, but they still reject reports that are missing a calibration reference or an IQI placement. A generic business ERP gives you invoicing and inventory but none of the NDT structure. Spreadsheets give you flexibility but no enforcement. The Atlantis ERP gives you NDT-specific fields and blocks the obvious mistakes, such as dispatching a technician whose certificate has expired or assigning an out-of-calibration instrument without a warning.

For a Fort Worth firm, that means one system that can serve an aerospace penetrant line with strict records and a gas gathering job with fast turnaround, without two sets of files. The full set of apps is listed on the ERP apps page.

Technician certification tracking software for aerospace and industrial technicians

Technician certification tracking in the Atlantis ERP records every qualification a technician holds and computes its status automatically as active, expiring soon (90 days), expired or revoked. Warning tasks are created 90 days before a certificate or vision test expires, and configurable email alerts go to the people you choose.

Fort Worth technicians often carry two worlds of qualification. A Level II in penetrant and eddy current working for an aerospace supplier may be qualified under the supplier's aerospace scheme, which the ERP records under other, while the same person holds SNT-TC-1A certifications under your written practice for industrial work. Each record stores scheme, level, method, certifying body, issue, expiry and renewal dates, industry sector, OJT hours, training hours, exam results and attachments. Examination sheets hold general, specific and practical scores against a passing score, with the exam files attached.

Vision tests are critical in aerospace penetrant and fluorescent work, and the ERP tracks near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic and certificate file with their own expiry. Certificate templates per scheme set validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is required, and minimum OJT and training hours. Company certifications, such as your quality management accreditation or customer approvals, have their own alert days. Timesheets warn if a technician's certificate is not valid, so a lapse is caught even if someone ignored the email. See the certificates app.

Calibration management software for Fort Worth labs and field kits

Calibration management in the Atlantis ERP ties each instrument, probe and accessory to its serial number, calibration frequency, status and next due date, and warns when an out-of-calibration item is assigned to a job. The calibration certificate register holds the lab's accreditation number, valid, expiring or expired status, the certificate PDF and expiry alerts.

An aerospace-focused Fort Worth shop typically runs eddy current instruments, UV-A lamps, light meters, penetrant line equipment and reference standards alongside the usual UT flaw detectors. Each calibration record captures provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag and a pass, fail or conditional result. The maintenance log covers preventive, corrective, repair, cleaning, firmware update and probe replacement, with condition before and after, so a probe swap on an eddy current set is on file when the auditor asks.

For field crews on rail, bridge or Barnett gas jobs, the issue and return workflow records condition at checkout and return, with supervisor and manager approval. Reservations stop two jobs claiming the same instrument, and inbound and outbound movements are logged. Consumables such as penetrant, developer, cleaner, magnetic particles and couplant carry reorder levels and low-stock flags. Purchase records separate OEMs, dealers and calibration labs, with the accredited-lab flag and accreditation expiry, and purchase lines can point to a specific equipment serial. More detail on the asset management app.

Procedure control for aerospace, nuclear and industrial work

The procedures app gives Fort Worth contractors a single register of procedures with document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard, acceptance criteria and the procedure text or file. Approved revisions are locked, and every revision is kept as a snapshot.

Aerospace and nuclear customers are strict about revision control. A penetrant procedure for a supplier's parts, an eddy current procedure for a specific inspection, a UT procedure written to ASME Section V for a power client, and an RT procedure for a gas pipeline job all need to be current, approved and traceable to the report that used them. The workflow runs draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published, with rejected and archived states, and records who prepared, reviewed and approved each revision and when. Rejections carry a reason, which is exactly what an auditor wants to read.

The AI-assisted first draft helps your Level III start a new procedure quickly, with a fallback to a built-in template, but the Level III reviews and approves it. Email notifications and reminders keep approvals from stalling. Procedure references flow into project tasks and reports, so each report points to the revision that was in force on the day. See the procedures app.

NDT reporting software for Fort Worth: PT, ET, UT and RT in one place

The NDT reports app covers 17 report types, including PT, MT, UT, RT, ECT, PAUT, TOFD, MFL, UT thickness, hardness, PMI, ferrite and computed radiography, each with its own numbering sequence. Reports follow draft, in progress, review, approved and sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures.

Method-specific fields are what make the reports usable in this market. PT reports capture method and developer. UT reports hold the probe calibration table. RT reports on a gas line capture source, technique, IQI type and placement. PAUT reports hold focal laws. Weld and job lines carry defect type and orientation, and the overall result is recorded as acceptable, not acceptable, or acceptable with remarks. References to work order, request, WPS, contract, drawing numbers, procedure and standard are part of the report, not a note at the bottom.

Versioned company templates in Excel, Word, PDF or HTML carry your logo, header and footer, and Excel templates are filled automatically by mapping fields to cells, so an aerospace customer's required format is reproduced exactly. Field crews on rail yards, bridges or gas leases use the offline field app, which stores drafts and photos without signal and syncs later. Third-party inspector names and signatures can be captured where required. For owners who want inspection data on a 3D model of the asset, see Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Crew dispatch and scheduling software for Tarrant County and beyond

Crew dispatch in the Atlantis ERP runs each job as a team assignment moving from planned to dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates and mobilisation and demobilisation dates. Double-booking of technicians and of equipment serial numbers is blocked.

Fort Worth scheduling has a particular shape. Aerospace work is steady and shop-based, while outage and pipeline work is lumpy and far away. When Comanche Peak or a gas-fired plant schedules an outage, or a pipeline company calls for an RT crew in the Barnett or further west, you need to see immediately who is free, who is on leave, who is in training and who is already committed. The availability calendar holds assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable, and overlaps are blocked. Time Off approvals feed the same calendar.

Each technician shows current assignment, utilisation and next available date. When a coordinator attaches an instrument to the job, the ERP warns if it is out of calibration. Calendar, kanban and list views suit different people in the office. The Fleet app records whether a vehicle can carry radioactive sources, its transport licence number and expiry, and its assignment to a project and driver with dates and mileage, which matters for an RT truck leaving a Fort Worth yard for a remote pipeline spread. More on team assignments.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for Fort Worth contractors

Quotations and invoices in the Atlantis ERP use the same job, method and technician data as the rest of the system, so what you quote, what you record and what you bill line up. Quotes carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, and accepted quotes convert to sales orders.

Aerospace suppliers often buy on blanket purchase orders with detailed line requirements, while gas and pipeline clients want day-rate style billing with standby shown separately. The invoice header carries the NDT project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with subtotals for labour, equipment and consumables. Lines show cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours. Timesheets record work type (inspection, travel, standby, setup), billable flag, rate multiplier, site, client and equipment serial, with approval, and they feed billing directly.

Field expenses and per diems for crews working away from Fort Worth go through Expenses and can be re-billed to the job. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, outstanding invoices and a 12-month view, so you can see whether the aerospace side or the field side is carrying the business. See invoicing.

Inspection management software: CRM, dashboards and integrations

Inspection management software for a Fort Worth firm should also help win and keep clients. The CRM records service line, lead source, NDT service type, industry sector, site country and estimated technicians and days, and scores each lead from 0 to 100 as hot, warm, nurture or cold.

Lead lists from aerospace supplier directories or trade shows can be imported from CSV, and AI-personalised email previews and drip sequences by service line help you follow up without hiring a marketing team. The Business Cards app turns a photo of a card from a supplier day or a pre-bid meeting into a CRM lead in one click. KPI dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certificates expiring and expired, and issued equipment overdue for return.

Integration is scoped per implementation. The Atlantis ERP has an open REST API and integrates with SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, so you can keep your accounting package or exchange data with a large customer's system.

Affordable customizable ERP for inspection companies in Fort Worth

The Atlantis ERP is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, with pricing on quote request based on the apps and configuration you need. Atlantis NDT, founded by an ASNT NDT Level III, carries out the implementation, so configuration decisions are made by people who have worked under written practices and audits.

A Fort Worth rollout usually starts where the audit risk is highest: technicians, certificates and vision tests, then instruments and calibration history, then procedures with their current revisions. Report templates are then matched to your customers' required formats. Taxes, payment terms and invoice layouts are configured for Texas, and integrations are agreed up front. The offline field app is installed on crew devices, and office staff are trained on dispatch, quoting and invoicing.

If you train your own technicians, the eLearning app gives you a course portal with Level I, II and III sections, protected video lessons, quizzes and completion certificates, and the Practical NDT 3D simulator supports hands-on practice. Atlantis offers ASNT SNT-TC-1A based NDT training. Book a Fort Worth ERP demo with your own jobs loaded.

How the options compare for a Fort Worth NDT firm

Talk to us about your current setup and we will show where the ERP replaces what you already use.

Frequently asked questions

What NDT software suits a Fort Worth aerospace supplier?

One that keeps certificates, vision tests, procedure revisions and calibration records linked to each report. The Atlantis ERP does this and reproduces customer report formats through your own templates.

Can one system handle both aerospace shop work and field pipeline work?

Yes. The same technician, instrument and job records serve both, with method-specific reports, team assignments for field crews and offline capture for sites without signal.

Does the ERP track radiation safety details for RT crews?

Yes. The employee NDT profile holds radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry, and Fleet records whether a vehicle can carry radioactive sources along with its transport licence.

Is it affordable for small NDT companies in Fort Worth?

Yes. It is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, and you can start with the apps you need most. Pricing is quote on request.

Can it integrate with our accounting or a customer's ERP?

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

Do you provide aerospace or ISO 9712 training?

No. Atlantis offers ASNT SNT-TC-1A based NDT training only. The ERP can record ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP and other certificates your technicians already hold. Ask us a question.