NDT Inspection Management Software for Inspection Companies in Manitoba

Short answer: The Atlantis ERP solution is a fully customized ERP for NDT and inspection companies in Manitoba. It tracks technician certifications across CAN/CGSB-48.9712, NAS 410, SNT-TC-1A and other schemes, controls instrument calibration, dispatches crews from Winnipeg to hydro, mining and oilfield sites, captures NDT reports offline and runs quoting, timesheets and invoicing. Setup is remote and typically takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, depending on how clean your existing records are. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable. Ask for a Manitoba demo.

Manitoba's NDT market is unusual for the Prairies. Oil and gas matters, but it is not the centre of gravity. Winnipeg is one of Canada's main aerospace manufacturing and engine-overhaul cities, Manitoba Hydro runs a large fleet of hydroelectric stations on the Nelson and Winnipeg rivers, the north has nickel, copper and zinc mining, and the city has a manufacturing base in buses, coaches, agricultural equipment and steel. Most inspection companies here work from Winnipeg and send technicians out to sites that can be a long drive or a flight away. That combination of tightly audited aerospace work and remote heavy-industry work is what your business system has to handle.

Where the NDT work is in Manitoba

Direct answer: Manitoba NDT demand comes from Winnipeg aerospace (engine overhaul, composite and metallic parts), Manitoba Hydro's generating stations and transmission, northern mining around Thompson, Snow Lake and Flin Flon, southwest Manitoba oil production around Virden and Waskada, the Enbridge mainline, and Winnipeg and Brandon manufacturing, fertiliser and steel.

Winnipeg aerospace. StandardAero overhauls and repairs gas turbine engines in Winnipeg, Boeing has a large composite parts plant in the city, and Magellan Aerospace manufactures engine and structural components there. Their suppliers and service shops run eddy current, penetrant, magnetic particle, ultrasonic and radiographic inspection, usually under customer specifications that call for NAS 410 or EN 4179 personnel qualification. That work is heavily audited, and the paperwork is as important as the inspection.

Hydro. Manitoba Hydro generates most of the province's electricity from hydroelectric stations, with the largest on the Nelson River in the north, including Kettle, Long Spruce, Limestone and the newer Keeyask station, and older stations on the Winnipeg River east of the city. Turbines, runners, penstocks, gates, cranes and structural steel need periodic inspection, often during planned unit outages with fixed windows.

Northern mining. Vale operates nickel mining in Thompson, and Hudbay operates around Snow Lake and Flin Flon. Hoists, headframes, crushers, mills, tanks and piping need NDT, and the sites are remote, with fly-in or long-drive access and their own safety rules.

Southwest oil and pipelines. Light oil production around Virden and Waskada in southwest Manitoba brings wellsite facilities, batteries and gathering lines. The Enbridge mainline crosses the south of the province on its way to the US, with a major terminal at Cromer.

Manufacturing and processing. New Flyer and Motor Coach Industries build buses and coaches in Winnipeg, MacDon builds agricultural equipment, Gerdau runs a steel mini-mill in Selkirk and Koch Fertilizer operates a nitrogen plant in Brandon. Welded structures, pressure equipment and process plant generate steady fabrication and in-service inspection. The Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay and the Whiteshell Laboratories decommissioning project at Pinawa add occasional specialised work.

For a Winnipeg-based NDT company, this mix means one technician might spend Monday on an engine component in an aerospace shop and Thursday on a penstock in a northern generating station. The two jobs have different clients, procedures, report formats and audit expectations, and the company has to keep both straight.

Manitoba regulators, codes and certification schemes

Direct answer: Boilers and pressure vessels in Manitoba fall under The Steam and Pressure Plants Act, administered by Inspection and Technical Services (ITS) under the Office of the Fire Commissioner, with CSA B51 as the construction code. Industrial radiography is licensed by the CNSC. Interprovincial pipelines such as the Enbridge mainline are regulated by the Canada Energy Regulator. Personnel certification follows CAN/CGSB-48.9712 for industry and NAS 410 or EN 4179 for aerospace.

ITS Manitoba handles boiler and pressure vessel safety through inspections, design registration, quality assurance plans and welding procedure registration. Owners, repair organisations and their NDT contractors produce the records ITS and insurers rely on. See our notes on ITS Manitoba compliance, CSA B51 and CRN registration. Pipeline work follows CSA Z662; provincial oil and gas facilities are overseen by the province, and the Enbridge mainline by the Canada Energy Regulator.

Radiography anywhere in Canada needs a CNSC licence, and exposure device operators must hold CNSC certification. Workplace Safety and Health rules apply on every site, and Manitoba Hydro, the mines and the large manufacturers all run their own contractor safety prequalification.

Personnel certification is the area with most variety. Industrial clients usually expect CAN/CGSB-48.9712 certificates. The Canadian General Standards Board, which published the standard, closed on 1 April 2026; CAN/CGSB-48.9712 remains valid, but confirm the current certification body for renewals. Aerospace customers usually require employer certification under NAS 410 or EN 4179 with a responsible Level 3, plus annual vision tests. US-owned plants and US-code work may call for an ASNT SNT-TC-1A written practice. Fabricators and inspection organisations may also hold CSA W47.1 or CSA W178.1 certification.

What aerospace and heavy-industry clients audit

Direct answer: Aerospace customers audit personnel qualifications, vision tests, procedures and technique sheets, equipment and reference standard calibration, and report traceability. Hydro, mining and oil clients focus on certification currency, calibration certificates, safety prequalification, outage readiness and daily reporting. Both want to trace any past report back to the person, instrument and procedure revision behind it.

An aerospace auditor at a Winnipeg shop will pick a report from months ago and ask: who signed it, what was their scheme, level and method certification on that date, was their near-vision and colour-perception test current, which procedure revision applied, and when was the eddy current instrument and its reference standard last calibrated. Each missing link is a finding, and repeated findings can cost a supplier its approval.

A hydro or mining client is less interested in the detail of one report and more interested in readiness. Can you put enough certified technicians on site for a unit outage that starts on a set date? Are their site orientations and safety tickets current? Are the instruments calibrated? Will daily progress arrive on time? Their contractor-management staff will also ask for insurance and safety programme documents.

Most small Manitoba NDT companies hold this information in spreadsheets, shared folders and an accounting package. The records exist, but they are not linked, so a lapsed vision test does not stop a technician being booked on an aerospace job. That link is the main reason to run an NDT ERP.

What the Atlantis ERP does for Manitoba NDT companies

Direct answer: The ERP connects certificates, vision tests, procedures, equipment and calibration, dispatch, offline reports, timesheets and invoicing in one system configured for NDT. The table maps Manitoba needs to built-in features; anything not listed is configured during implementation.

See the ERP apps page for details, including certificates, procedures, team assignments and CRM. The overview is on the Atlantis ERP page.

Certification tracking for aerospace and industrial schemes

Direct answer: Every certificate is its own record. CAN/CGSB-48.9712 certificates go under the ISO 9712 scheme, NAS 410 or EN 4179 employer certifications under "other" with the scheme named, and SNT-TC-1A and CP-189 under their own. Each record has level, method, certifying body, dates, OJT and training hours, exam result and attachments, and its status updates automatically.

A Winnipeg technician might hold an employer NAS 410 Level 2 in eddy current and penetrant for an engine overhaul customer, a CGSB Level 2 in ultrasonic testing for hydro and mining work, and an annual vision test. In the Atlantis ERP that is three certificate records and a vision test record under one employee. Each shows active, expiring soon (within 90 days), expired or revoked, and the Expiring Soon and Expired menus show the whole company at once.

Certificate templates per scheme set validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is needed, and minimum OJT and training hours. That is useful for aerospace written practices, which often set their own experience and exam rules. Examination sheets record general, specific and practical scores against a passing score that defaults to 70% and can be changed to match your written practice. The employee NDT profile shows highest level, methods certified, radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry.

Daily email alerts go to whoever you choose, with your own look-ahead days and resend interval, for technician certificates, calibration certificates and company certifications such as ISO 9001. If you need an outside Level III to write or review a written practice, see NDT consulting across Canada. Atlantis training is ASNT SNT-TC-1A based (NDT training in Winnipeg); it does not train toward CGSB, NAS 410 or EN 4179 certification.

Calibration and equipment control for shop and field

Direct answer: Instruments, probes, reference standards and accessories are tracked by serial number with holder, condition, lifecycle and calibration status. Calibration records carry due dates and alerts, dispatch warns about out-of-calibration equipment, issue and return need approval, and consumables have reorder levels.

Manitoba NDT firms often run two equipment pools: shop equipment that stays at an aerospace line, and field kits that travel north. The asset management app handles both. Each item has equipment type, asset tag, firmware, accessories, assigned person, condition and lifecycle stage (new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired, disposed). Issue and return go through supervisor and manager approval with condition recorded at each end. Reservations stop the same phased array set being promised to two outages.

Calibration records hold provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, whether the lab is accredited, the result and the next due date. The calibration certificate register shows valid, expiring and expired status with the PDF attached. Calibration labs can be set up as vendors with accreditation number and expiry, and purchase orders can be linked to a specific equipment serial. The maintenance log records preventive and corrective work, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement with condition before and after.

Consumables such as penetrant, developer, magnetic particles, couplant and PPE have reorder levels, low-stock flags and a movement ledger. For radiography, the fleet app records vehicles that can carry radioactive sources, with transport licence number and expiry and assignment to project or driver.

Dispatch, reporting and invoicing from Winnipeg

Direct answer: Jobs are set up as projects with client PO, site, methods, codes, scope and acceptance criteria, and dispatched as team assignments with clash and calibration checks. Technicians report in an offline app, reports go through review and approval with signatures, and approved timesheets feed invoices.

Picture a month with a Manitoba Hydro unit outage on the Nelson River, a weekly eddy current contract at an aerospace shop in Winnipeg and a handful of call-outs to southwest oil facilities. Each becomes a team assignment with dates, site GPS coordinates and assigned technicians and equipment. The calendar, kanban and list views show who is where; technician utilisation and next available date show who can take the next job. Overlapping bookings and double-booked instrument serial numbers are blocked, and an out-of-calibration instrument raises a warning.

Technicians fill reports in the offline app with method picker, photos and on-screen signatures. The 17 report types include ECT, PT, MT, UT, RT, PAUT, TOFD, UT thickness, hardness, PMI and computed radiography, each with method-specific fields, such as probe calibration tables for UT and source, technique and IQI details for RT. Reports carry work order, drawing, procedure and standard references and move from draft through review and approval to sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures.

Timesheets record inspection, travel, standby and setup separately with method, site, client and equipment serial, then go through approval. Invoices carry project, PO, site and industry sector with lines by cost centre, method, technician, equipment serial and rate type, and subtotals for labour, equipment and consumables. GST and Manitoba retail sales tax are configured during implementation. The financial dashboard shows revenue, margin, expenses and outstanding invoices over 12 months.

Scope, privacy and data questions

Direct answer: The ERP keeps the records auditors and clients ask for but does not certify your company. It has no RBI, fitness-for-service, API 510/570/653 interval or corrosion-rate calculation, and no TML/CML database. Hosting and data-residency questions from Manitoba Hydro, other Crown corporations or aerospace primes are discussed during scoping.

Aerospace customers increasingly ask how suppliers protect technical data and personnel records, and Crown corporations may set their own contract terms. Hosting location and access controls are agreed at scoping rather than assumed. NCR/CAPA workflows, which aerospace quality systems lean on heavily, can be configured during implementation to match your quality manual.

Procedures can be drafted with AI assistance, falling back to a built-in template, but a Level III still reviews and approves every revision. Approvers get email reminders, and rejected drafts carry a reason. For inspection data on a 3D model of a client's asset, see Digital Twin Reporting and Atlantis Digital Twins.

Implementation and integrations

Direct answer: Implementation is remote and typically takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, depending on how clean your existing records are. The open REST API connects the ERP to SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation.

Scoping covers methods, schemes, aerospace and industrial clients, report formats and your accounting system. You supply technicians, certificates, vision tests, equipment, calibration certificates, procedures and client lists. Aerospace shops with tidy qualification files tend to move fastest; companies whose records live in several inboxes take longer. Configuration covers certificate templates, alerts, report templates, invoice layout and taxes. Office staff learn dispatch, quoting and invoicing; technicians learn the offline app.

Aerospace primes and utilities often run SAP or Maximo. The REST API can push report status or results, pull work orders, or link to your accounting package. The field-device API handles jobs, issued equipment, report submission and sync. Integration scope is agreed and quoted on request.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP

Direct answer: Spreadsheets hold records without linking them. Generic ERP is good for accounting and stock but lacks NDT certificate, vision-test, calibration and report logic. The Atlantis ERP is configured for NDT work and customized to your company.

See also the inspection software comparison and the NDT software comparison.

Atlantis services across Manitoba

Direct answer: Atlantis supports Manitoba inspection companies remotely; there is no Atlantis office in Manitoba. Winnipeg has training and practical NDT pages, and neighbouring provinces have ERP pages.

• NDT training in Winnipeg (ASNT SNT-TC-1A based, online or onsite at your facility).
• Practical NDT simulator in Winnipeg for technician practice.
• Neighbouring provinces: NDT ERP in Saskatchewan, Regina and Ontario.
• NDT training in Canada and NDT consulting in Canada.

Companies in Winnipeg, Brandon, Selkirk, Steinbach, Thompson, Flin Flon, Virden and The Pas are set up the same way. Ask about a Manitoba setup.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT ERP for a Manitoba inspection company?

One that links certificates, vision tests, procedures, calibration, dispatch, reports and invoicing, and suits both aerospace and field work. The Atlantis ERP is built for NDT companies and customized to each one.

Can it hold NAS 410 and CGSB certificates for the same technician?

Yes. Each certificate is a separate record with its own status, so NAS 410, CGSB, SNT-TC-1A and others sit side by side.

Is CAN/CGSB-48.9712 still valid after the CGSB closure?

Yes. The Canadian General Standards Board, the standards publisher, closed on 1 April 2026, but CAN/CGSB-48.9712 remains the national certification scheme. Confirm the current certification body for renewals; the ERP records whichever body issued each certificate.

Does it track annual vision tests?

Yes, with near vision, far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic and expiry, and warning tasks 90 days ahead.

Can it help with ITS Manitoba requirements?

It keeps the certificates, calibration records, procedures and signed reports that pressure equipment owners and repair organisations need. It does not certify your company.

Does it work at northern sites with no signal?

Yes. The offline field app stores drafts and photos and syncs later.

How long does implementation take?

Typically 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, depending on how clean your records are. It is remote.

Does it calculate inspection intervals?

No. There is no RBI, fitness-for-service or API 510/570/653 interval or corrosion-rate calculation.

Can it connect to SAP or QuickBooks?

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

Can we keep data in Canada?

Hosting location and data residency are discussed during scoping.

How much does it cost?

It depends on users, apps and integrations. Quotes are on request.

Book a Manitoba NDT ERP demo

Bring one aerospace job and one hydro or mining job, and we will walk both through the Atlantis ERP from booking to invoice, including the audit trail behind each report. Book your demo or ask for a Manitoba quote. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable.

More Atlantis NDT services in Manitoba

• NDT training and certification in Manitoba
• Level III consulting in Manitoba
• Practical NDT simulator in Manitoba