Affordable NDT ERP in Marcus Hook — Fully Customizable, All Business Apps Included

NDT ERP for Marcus Hook: one system for a three-state stretch of the Delaware River

An NDT ERP for Marcus Hook has to cover more than one borough. Inspection companies based here work a short stretch of river that crosses three states: the Energy Transfer terminal and the Monroe Energy Trainer refinery in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, plants just over the line in Delaware, and refining and chemical sites across the river in New Jersey. The software has to keep certificates, calibration, reports and invoices straight across all of those clients and jurisdictions.

Two neighbours define the work. The Marcus Hook Industrial Complex, operated by Energy Transfer, receives natural gas liquids through the Mariner East pipeline system from the Marcellus and Utica shale and stores and exports them, with roughly three million barrels of NGL storage; its current expansion adds a large refrigerated ethane tank and more ethane chilling capacity. Right next to it, the Trainer refinery, owned by Monroe Energy, a Delta Air Lines subsidiary, processes about 185,000 barrels a day into jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and heating oil, and straddles Trainer, Marcus Hook and Chester. One is a construction-heavy cryogenic logistics site; the other is a working refinery with turnarounds and routine inspection. A contractor serving both needs a system that handles new-construction weld inspection and in-service inspection side by side.

The Atlantis ERP solution is a fully customized ERP for NDT and inspection companies, set up and supported by Atlantis NDT (founder Anoop Rayavarapu, ASNT NDT Level III). It is affordable, accessible and fully customizable. Book a demo configured for Delaware River work.

What should inspection management software do for construction and in-service work at the same time?

Inspection management software for a Marcus Hook contractor should run construction weld inspection and in-service refinery inspection as separate projects with their own codes, procedures and report formats, while sharing one pool of technicians and equipment. The Atlantis ERP does this through projects, team assignments and method-specific reports.

Construction work at a terminal expansion produces volume: tank and piping welds examined by RT, computed radiography, PAUT or TOFD; PMI on alloy and stainless components for low-temperature service; ferrite readings on stainless welds; hardness and PWHT records where the specification calls for them; and holiday testing on coatings. In-service refinery work is different: UT thickness surveys, ECT and IRIS on exchanger tubes, MFL on tank floors, and MT, PT and VT on repairs during turnarounds.

Each project records its NDT job type, site, client PO, contract, methods, codes, scope and acceptance criteria, with assigned equipment and technicians and fields for safety induction and work permit. Tasks under each project carry method, technician, component, result, indication and defect counts, and procedure and WPS references. That lets a construction project report weld repair counts to the EPC's quality manager while the refinery project reports findings to the owner's inspector, without the two sets of data mixing. See projects.

NDT reporting software for weld inspection on terminal construction

The Atlantis ERP supports 17 report types, each with its own numbering sequence: UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, IRIS, PAUT, MFL, TOFD, PWHT, PMI, hardness, UT thickness, ferrite, holiday and coating, and computed radiography. On construction work, separate numbering per method keeps the weld log clean when hundreds of reports are issued in a few months.

RT reports record source, technique, IQI type and placement. PAUT reports record focal laws, and UT reports include the probe calibration table. Weld and job lines record defect type and orientation for each weld, and every report closes with acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks. References to work order, request, WPS, contract, drawing numbers, procedure and standard are captured on the report, so a rejected weld can be traced to the drawing and WPS without anyone looking it up again.

Reports move through draft, in progress, review, approved and sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures and a third-party or authorised inspector's name and signature where the job has one. Company templates are versioned in Excel, Word, PDF or HTML, with logo, header and footer, and Excel templates are filled automatically by mapping fields to cells. EPC contractors on large projects often issue their own weld-map spreadsheets; mapping them once means every report fills them automatically. Each method has its own PDF output. See NDT reports and Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Technician certification tracking software for multi-state crews

Technician certification tracking in the Atlantis ERP records each certificate by scheme (SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP or other), level, method, certifying body, industry sector and dates, with OJT hours, training hours, exam result and attachments, and computes active, expiring soon, expired or revoked status automatically.

Construction peaks bring in technicians from other companies and other regions, often holding certificates under different schemes. An EPC may accept one scheme and a refinery owner another. Having every certificate in one structured record, by scheme and method, makes it straightforward to check who can be put on which job. Certificate templates per scheme define validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is needed, and minimum OJT and training hours, so records are checked against the rules of the scheme they belong to.

Vision tests record near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception and contrast, with examiner, clinic, certificate file and expiry. Examination sheets hold general, specific and practical scores against a passing score that defaults to 70 percent. The employee NDT profile records highest level, methods certified, radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry, which matters on a construction job where RT crews work nights to keep the site clear.

Daily checks create warning tasks 90 days before a certificate or vision test expires, and configurable daily email alerts go to chosen recipients, with your own look-ahead days and resend interval. Company certifications, such as your ISO registration or client accreditations, are tracked with alert days too. Timesheets warn when a technician's certificate is not valid. See certificates.

Calibration management software for a busy equipment room

Calibration management records every calibration with provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, pass, fail or conditional result and next due date, and keeps a calibration certificate register with the lab's accreditation number, the PDF and valid, expiring or expired status, with expiry alerts.

During a construction peak, a contractor's equipment room is under pressure: CR readers, PAUT units, PMI analysers, ferrite meters and hardness testers going out and coming back daily. Every item is tracked by serial number with type, assigned person, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories and lifecycle status (new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired or disposed), with its calibration frequency and status. Issue and return goes through supervisor and manager approval with condition recorded both ways. Reservations with clash prevention stop two crews booking the same PMI analyser, and inbound and outbound movements are logged. If you rent equipment in to cover a peak, or rent your own out, rental rates can be recorded.

The maintenance log records preventive and corrective work, repairs, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement with condition before and after. Purchasing flags vendors as OEM, dealer or calibration lab, with the lab's accreditation number and expiry, and links purchase order lines to a specific equipment serial. Team assignments warn when assigned equipment is out of calibration. See asset management.

Crew dispatch and scheduling software across two very different clients

Crew dispatch in the Atlantis ERP runs each job through planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, blocks double-booking of technicians and of equipment serial numbers, and records site GPS coordinates and mobilisation and demobilisation dates.

The scheduling problem here is competition for the same people. A terminal construction schedule wants a steady RT and PAUT crew for months; a refinery turnaround next door wants a surge of UT, ECT and MT technicians for a few weeks. A dispatcher who can see each technician's status, current assignment, utilisation and next available date, on a calendar that already knows about leave, training, sickness and unavailability, can decide which job to staff first before either client is let down. Overlapping entries are blocked. Calendar, kanban and list views are available.

The fleet app records vehicle purpose, whether it can carry radioactive sources, its transport licence number and expiry, and assignment to project and driver with dates and mileage. With RT crews moving between Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey sites, keeping source-vehicle records current is part of staying compliant. See team assignments and fleet.

Procedure control when the EPC, the owner and the code all ask different questions

The procedure register records document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard (for example ASME Section V), acceptance criteria and body text or an uploaded file. The workflow runs draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published, with rejection reasons and archiving, and approved revisions are locked.

On a construction project, the EPC's quality plan often requires the NDT contractor's procedures to be submitted and accepted before work starts, and every later revision must be resubmitted. The refinery next door runs its own procedure review. The register keeps a snapshot of every revision with who prepared, reviewed and approved it and when, so you can show each client exactly which revision was in force for each report. Methods covered include UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ET, TOFD, PAUT, LT, AE, hardness, PMI, CR, DR and more, which covers low-temperature material verification work such as PMI and ferrite as well as the usual weld methods.

A Level III can create an AI-assisted first draft of a procedure (falling back to a built-in template), then review and approve it; the Level III's judgement is not replaced. Approvers get email notifications and reminders. See procedures and Level III consulting.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for multi-state billing

Quotes record job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, built from NDT service products flagged with method and category, with an optional global discount, a branded PDF and online acceptance and signature that converts the quote to a sales order.

Invoices carry the NDT project, the job or PO number, the site, the invoice type and the industry sector, and subtotal labour, equipment and consumables. Lines carry cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours. Cost centres let you see construction and in-service work separately, which tells you whether the terminal expansion is actually more profitable than the refinery work or just busier. Taxes are configured per jurisdiction during implementation, which matters for a company invoicing in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

Timesheets carry work type (inspection, travel, standby, setup), method, billable flag, rate multiplier, site, client and equipment serial, with approval. Night-shift RT on construction often carries a different rate; the rate multiplier handles that. Field expenses and per diems for visiting technicians are recorded and re-billed. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, outstanding invoices, bills and expenses over twelve months. Ask how we would set up your three-state billing.

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Affordable, customizable ERP for small NDT companies in Delaware County

Many inspection companies around Marcus Hook, Chester and Wilmington are small and grow in bursts when a construction project lands. An affordable, customizable ERP lets them add people and equipment during a peak and scale back afterwards without changing systems. The Atlantis ERP runs in a browser and on a phone, includes the business apps, and is quoted on request.

The offline field app is an installable web app that works without signal, which matters inside tank shells, pipe racks and underground runs; it stores drafts and photos locally, syncs later, and offers method picker, photo capture, on-screen signature and PDF preview. A REST API for field devices supports jobs assigned to the technician, equipment issued, report submission and sync.

The Atlantis ERP has an open REST API and integrates with SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation. The CRM records service line, NDT service type, industry sector and estimated technicians and days, with an NDT lead score from 0 to 100 and drip email sequences by service line. Dashboards show certificates expiring, calibration due or overdue and issued equipment overdue. For 3D views of inspection results, see Atlantis Digital Twins. Training from Atlantis NDT is ASNT SNT-TC-1A based; see training and Practical NDT.

Frequently asked questions

Can the ERP handle a large construction weld program and refinery turnaround work at once?

Yes. Each runs as its own project with codes, scope, acceptance criteria and procedures, while team assignments share technicians and equipment and block double-booking.

Does it support computed radiography and PAUT reports?

Yes. Computed radiography, RT, PAUT and TOFD are among the 17 report types, each with its own numbering and method-specific fields such as IQI details for RT and focal laws for PAUT.

Can we invoice clients in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey?

Yes. Taxes and payment terms are configured per jurisdiction during implementation, and invoice lines carry cost centre, method, serial, technician and rate type.

Can technicians with ISO 9712 or PCN certificates be recorded?

Yes. The certificate record supports SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP and others. Atlantis NDT's own training is ASNT SNT-TC-1A based only.

Will it work without signal inside a tank?

Yes. The offline field app stores drafts and photos on the device and syncs once connected.

How is it priced?

By quote on request, based on users, scope and integrations. It is positioned as affordable, accessible and fully customizable.

How do we start?

Send us your weld log format and one refinery report, and we will show you both in the system. Request a quote for Marcus Hook.