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NDT software in Halifax: shipbuilding, naval maintenance, offshore and port work

Halifax NDT work runs through the harbour. Halifax Shipyard, operated by Irving Shipbuilding, builds the Royal Canadian Navy's Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships and the River-class destroyers under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, which means a long pipeline of structural and hull weld inspection. CFB Halifax is home to the Atlantic fleet, with ship maintenance at Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Scott and HMC Dockyard. The Port of Halifax handles container and bulk traffic, Nova Scotia Power's Tufts Cove station sits in Dartmouth, and the Burnside industrial park is one of the largest in Atlantic Canada, full of fabricators and machine shops. Out by the airport, aerospace maintenance work supports military and civil fleets.

Offshore energy has shaped the market too. The Sable Offshore Energy Project and Deep Panuke have both been decommissioned, and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (CNSOER), which replaced the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board in January 2025, now also regulates offshore renewable energy. Halifax contractors with offshore experience are watching offshore wind closely.

The typical Halifax NDT contractor works for shipbuilders, naval maintenance contractors, fabricators and utilities, with a mix of shop and ship work and occasional travel to plants across Nova Scotia. The regulatory context is Canadian: the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for radiography licensing and exposure device operator certification, Natural Resources Canada's NDT certification body for CAN/CGSB-48.9712 / ISO 9712 personnel certification, the province's technical safety regime and CSA B51 for boilers and pressure vessels, Canadian Welding Bureau certification for fabricators, Transport Canada for vessels and aircraft, and classification societies on commercial ships. Defence work can also bring Controlled Goods Program registration and security requirements. The sections below apply each Atlantis ERP module to that work.

ERP for NDT companies in Halifax: the short answer

An ERP for NDT companies in Halifax is one system connecting technician certifications, radiation records, instrument calibration, procedures, crew dispatch, marine and weld reports and invoicing. The Atlantis ERP solution is built for NDT and inspection companies and is implemented and supported by Atlantis NDT, founded by an ASNT NDT Level III.

The value is in the links. A timesheet warns when a technician's certificate is not valid. A team assignment warns when assigned equipment is out of calibration and blocks double-booking of technicians and equipment serial numbers. Reports carry work order, WPS, contract, drawing, procedure and standard references, and move through review and approval with signatures. On shipbuilding programmes with long documentation trails and defence customers who audit, that traceability is what the work is judged on.

Technician certification tracking software for ISO 9712 sectors

Technician certification tracking in the Atlantis ERP records scheme, level, method, certifying body, industry sector, issue, expiry and renewal dates, OJT and training hours, exam results and attachments. Status is computed as active, expiring soon (within 90 days), expired or revoked, with warning tasks and daily email alerts.

The industry sector field matters in Halifax. Canadian ISO 9712 certification is sector-based, and a technician certified for welds or castings is not automatically certified for aerospace work, so recording the sector on each certificate lets the planner match people to shipyard, pressure-equipment or aerospace jobs correctly. Technicians hired from the US or overseas may hold SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, PCN or CSWIP certifications, and each is recorded with its own scheme. Aerospace customers may also require employer-based qualification to their own specifications, recorded as an 'other' scheme.

Vision tests (Jaeger J1/J2 near vision, far vision, colour perception, contrast) are held with examiner, clinic, certificate file and expiry, with the same 90-day warning. The employee NDT profile adds radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry. Company certifications, such as your quality-system certificate, CWB-related approvals and Controlled Goods registration, are tracked with their own alert days so they do not lapse between contracts. Atlantis does not provide ISO 9712 training; the ERP records those certificates. See the Certificates app.

Calibration management software for a harbour-front equipment fleet

Calibration management tracks every instrument, probe and source-related item by serial number: type, assigned person, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories, lifecycle and calibration frequency and status. The calibration certificate register holds provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag and accreditation number, pass/fail/conditional result, PDF and expiry alerts.

Harbour work is hard on equipment: salt spray, cold decks and the constant carrying of kit in and out of ship spaces. The maintenance log records preventive, corrective, repair, cleaning, firmware update and probe replacement events with condition before and after. Issue and return goes through supervisor and manager approval with condition recorded both ways, and reservations with clash prevention stop two crews claiming the same eddy current set on the same shift. The Purchase app records calibration-lab vendors with accredited-lab flag, accreditation number and expiry, with order lines linked to an equipment serial.

Consumables such as penetrant, developer, MT products, couplant and PPE have reorder levels, low-stock flags and a movement ledger. In a Nova Scotia winter, cold-weather penetrant and MT work often needs products and procedures qualified for low temperatures, so knowing what stock is on the shelf before a shipyard job starts is practical, not administrative. See Asset Management.

Crew dispatch and scheduling software for shipyard and dockyard work

Crew dispatch runs through Team Assignments: planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates, mobilisation and demobilisation dates, and calendar, kanban and list views. Technicians and equipment serial numbers cannot be double-booked, and out-of-calibration equipment triggers a warning.

Shipyard block construction runs to a production schedule, while naval maintenance and commercial repair work arrive at short notice. A Halifax dispatcher is often balancing a standing crew at a yard, a call-out to a ship alongside, and a shop job in Burnside. The availability calendar (assigned, leave, training, sick, unavailable) blocks overlaps, and each technician shows current assignment, utilisation and next available date. Project records carry safety induction and work permit fields next to client PO, contract, methods, codes, scope and acceptance criteria, which is where site access and security briefing requirements are tracked.

For radiography, the Fleet app records which vehicles can carry radioactive sources, the transport licence number and expiry, and project and driver assignments with dates and mileage. Timesheets record inspection, travel, standby and setup, so time waiting for a space to be cleared or a hot-work permit to close is captured. See Team Assignments and Fleet.

NDT reporting software for ships, blocks and aircraft components

The NDT Reports module covers 17 report types including UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, PAUT, TOFD, UT thickness, PMI, hardness, ferrite, holiday/coating and computed radiography. Reports move through draft, in progress, review, approved and sent with inspector, reviewer, approver and third-party or authorized inspector signatures.

Marine mode fits Halifax directly. It adds a vessel cover page with photo, inspection location and dates, and merges the classification-society certificate from a library covering DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS and ClassNK, plus the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate, into the PDF, with inspection photos in a 2-up grid. For commercial vessels calling at the port, that is the report pack a surveyor expects.

For shipbuilding, weld lines record defect type and orientation with an overall result of acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks; UT reports carry probe calibration tables, MT reports record technique and particle type, and UT thickness readings by direction suit hull gauging. Aerospace work uses PT method and developer fields and eddy current reports. Versioned templates in Excel, Word, PDF or HTML handle customer formats, and English, French or bilingual versions can be set up during implementation for federal clients who request them. The offline app stores drafts and photos locally, useful inside hull blocks and below decks. See NDT Reports and Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Procedure control and NCR/CAPA for Halifax contractors

The procedure register holds document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard, acceptance criteria and body text or file, with a draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published workflow, locked approved revisions and a revision snapshot. The AI-assisted first draft gives a Level III a starting point, and the Level III reviews and approves it. Defence and shipbuilding customers audit procedure control closely, and NCR and CAPA workflows can be configured during implementation so findings and corrective actions stay with the jobs they came from. See Procedures.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for Halifax work

Quotes carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, NDT service products by method and category, a global discount, a branded PDF and online acceptance that converts to a sales order. Invoices carry project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals.

Shipyard and defence-supply customers expect backup on every line. Invoice lines hold cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours, fed by approved timesheets with billable flags and rate multipliers. Expenses for travel to plants elsewhere in Nova Scotia can be re-billed to the job. Canadian dollar invoicing and HST are configured during implementation. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA and outstanding invoices over 12 months. See Quotations and Invoicing.

Affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in Halifax

The Atlantis ERP is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, with a quote on request. Halifax contractors typically start with certificates, calibration, dispatch and marine-mode reporting, then add invoicing and CRM.

The CRM records service line, NDT service type, industry sector and estimated technicians and days, with an NDT lead score from 0 to 100, which helps when shipbuilding subcontracts, port work and future offshore wind projects compete for attention. The open REST API connects to QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Maximo or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation. Atlantis offers ASNT SNT-TC-1A-based NDT training and an eLearning portal, plus the Practical NDT 3D simulator for hands-on practice. Book a demo for your Halifax team.

Implementing the Atlantis ERP in Halifax

1. Discovery: review certification schemes and sectors held by staff, shipyard and defence requirements, report formats and language needs.
2. Data load: technicians, certificates, vision tests, radiation records, company certifications, instruments and calibration certificates imported.
3. Marine and templates: vessel cover pages, class-society library and English, French or bilingual templates configured.
4. Field rollout: offline app deployed and tested on a live job.
5. Go-live: alerts, approvals, Canadian-dollar invoicing and dashboards switched on, set to Atlantic time.

Needs outside the built-in features are configured during implementation and scoped first. Request an implementation quote.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs the Atlantis ERP in Halifax

What to ask in an NDT ERP demo in Halifax

Halifax inspection work leans toward shipbuilding, naval maintenance, offshore support and power generation. Those clients expect traceable records for every weld and every technician. A useful demo walks through one of your real jobs from quote to signed report.

• Show a ship-section inspection recorded in marine report mode, with the class-society certificate of the inspector attached.
• Show ISO 9712 certificates with their sector fields, and show the warning when one is about to lapse.
• Show company-level registrations tracked with renewal dates, alongside individual technician certificates.
• Show a job that moves from the shipyard to an offshore support base, with timesheets and equipment following it.
• Show an invoice with HST and the purchase order reference a naval prime contractor would demand.

A vendor who answers these on your data understands Halifax work. Book a Halifax walkthrough.

Frequently asked questions

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

Software that handles Canadian certification sectors, marine reports, calibration and invoicing together. The Atlantis ERP covers all of these in one system.

Can the ERP record NRCan ISO 9712 certificates by sector?

Yes. Scheme, sector, level, method, certifying body and dates are recorded per certificate. Atlantis does not provide ISO 9712 training.

Does it produce class-society style vessel reports?

Yes. Marine mode adds a vessel cover page and merges the class, Level II and calibration certificates into the PDF.

Can we issue bilingual reports for federal clients?

French or bilingual templates can be configured during implementation.

Does the ERP handle offshore integrity assessments?

No. The ERP manages people, equipment, jobs, reports and billing; it does not perform integrity assessments.

How much does it cost?

Quote on request. Ask for a Halifax quote.