Affordable NDT ERP in New Orleans — Fully Customizable, Every Business App You Need Included

NDT software in New Orleans: river refineries, offshore support, ports and aerospace

The New Orleans inspection market is broader than most people outside it realise. Upriver and downriver are major refineries: Marathon's Garyville refinery, the Shell Norco site and Valero's St. Charles refinery in Norco, Chalmette Refining in St. Bernard Parish and the Meraux refinery. Plaquemines Parish has Venture Global's Plaquemines LNG. The Port of New Orleans and the Port of South Louisiana handle heavy marine traffic, the city is home to the Gulf of America offshore regional offices of the federal offshore regulators, and NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East has built large rocket stages.

That mix produces an NDT contractor profile unlike Baton Rouge or Lake Charles. A New Orleans company might do UT thickness and PAUT at a river refinery on Monday, a vessel inspection for a classification survey at the port on Wednesday, and MT on offshore equipment at a Harvey or Houma fabrication yard on Friday. Some also do precision work for aerospace or manufacturing clients. The company is often small, with technicians who hold certifications under several schemes and a customer list spread across very different industries.

The Atlantis ERP solution is designed to run exactly this sort of mixed business. Here is how each app applies to New Orleans inspection work.

ERP for NDT companies in New Orleans

An ERP for NDT companies in New Orleans should cope with a customer base that spans refining, marine, offshore and manufacturing, each with different report formats and billing expectations. The Atlantis ERP holds certifications, equipment, dispatch, reports, procedures, CRM, quotes and invoices in one system configured to your company.

In practice, New Orleans contractors struggle less with volume than with variety. A marine client wants a class certificate merged into the report, a refinery wants their Excel template, an offshore fabricator wants a weld map with WPS references. With the Atlantis ERP, NDT Reports, CRM, Quotations, Project and Invoicing all carry industry sector and client-specific settings, so the office is not rebuilding every document by hand.

NDT reporting software for marine and port work in New Orleans

NDT reporting software in New Orleans needs a proper marine mode, because port, barge and vessel work is a large share of local inspection. The Atlantis ERP marine mode adds a vessel cover page and photo, inspection location and dates, and merges the classification-society certificate, the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate into the PDF.

The built-in class library covers DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS and ClassNK, and inspection photos are laid out in a 2-up grid. For a surveyor attending a hull or tank inspection on the river, that means one PDF with everything they need, rather than a report plus three email attachments. UT thickness readings are recorded by direction, and MT, PT and VT reports cover structural and weld inspection on hulls, cranes and port equipment.

Across all work the ERP has 17 report types, including UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, PAUT, TOFD, MFL, IRIS, ECT, PMI and hardness, each with its own number sequence. Reports go from draft to review to approved to sent with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures. Offshore and barge-side technicians use the offline field app and sync when they are back in coverage. For clients who want inspection results mapped onto a 3D vessel or plant model, see Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Inspection management software for river refineries around New Orleans

Inspection management software for New Orleans refinery work should keep technicians, instruments and reports traceable under plant QA audits and during turnarounds at Garyville, Norco or Chalmette. The Atlantis ERP ties each report to the technician's certification record and the instrument's calibration record, with work order, drawing, procedure and standard references on the report.

Refinery work around New Orleans leans on IRIS and ECT for heat exchanger tubes, MFL for tank floors, UT thickness and PAUT on piping, and RT on new welds. IRIS, ECT and MFL each have their own report types; MFL reports carry scan mode and item lines. Weld and job lines capture defect type and orientation, and the overall result is recorded as acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks.

The Project app holds the NDT job type, site, client PO, contract, methods, codes, scope, acceptance criteria, assigned equipment and technicians, and safety induction and work permit fields. Tasks inside a project carry the method, technician, component, result, indication and defect counts, and procedure and WPS references. That structure lets a small New Orleans contractor answer a refinery inspector's questions about who did what, with which instrument, against which procedure.

Technician certification tracking software for multi-scheme New Orleans crews

Technician certification tracking in New Orleans often means handling several schemes on one person, because marine, offshore and refinery clients do not all ask for the same thing. The Atlantis ERP records SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP and other schemes with level, method, certifying body and dates, and computes active, expiring soon, expired or revoked status.

Each technician record includes OJT and training hours, exam results, attachments, vision tests with examiner and clinic details, radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry. Certificate templates per scheme define validity, whether a vision test or exam is required, and minimum OJT and training hours. Examination sheets record general, specific and practical scores against a passing score.

Warning tasks appear 90 days before a cert or vision test expires, and daily email alerts cover technician certs, calibration certificates and company certifications. In marine mode, the inspector's Level II certificate is pulled straight from this record into the report PDF, so the one on the report is always the current one.

Calibration management and equipment control for New Orleans contractors

Calibration management software for New Orleans NDT companies needs to follow instruments that move between a refinery, a barge and an offshore yard in the same week. The Atlantis ERP tracks every instrument and probe by serial number with calibration frequency, calibration records and a certificate register with expiry alerts, and warns when out-of-calibration equipment is assigned.

Calibration records store provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited lab flag, result and next due date. The same calibration certificate feeds the marine-mode PDF. Issue and return approvals, reservations with clash prevention, and condition at issue and return keep equipment accountable. Consumables such as couplant, penetrant and PPE have reorder levels, and the maintenance log covers repairs, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacements. Lifecycle status also covers equipment rented out, with rental rates recorded, useful if you rent instruments to other contractors between jobs.

Crew dispatch software for New Orleans jobs

Crew dispatch software in New Orleans should prevent the same technician or instrument being promised to a refinery and a vessel survey at the same time. The Atlantis ERP team assignments move from planned to dispatched to in field to submitted to closed, block double-booking of technicians and equipment serials, and flag out-of-calibration equipment.

Assignments hold site GPS coordinates, handy for a specific dock, wharf or fabrication yard, and mobilisation and demobilisation dates. The availability calendar shows assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable days, and Time Off approvals feed it directly. Managers see status, current assignment, utilisation and next available date in calendar, kanban and list views. The Fleet app tracks vehicle assignments, mileage and whether a vehicle may carry radioactive sources, with licence number and expiry.

CRM, quoting and invoicing software for a mixed New Orleans customer base

NDT quoting and invoicing software in New Orleans should reflect that a vessel survey, a refinery turnaround scope and an offshore fabrication job are priced and billed differently. The Atlantis ERP quotations include job type, site, dates and applicable codes with NDT service products by method, a branded PDF and online acceptance; invoices carry project, PO, site and industry sector with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals.

The CRM records service line, NDT service type, industry sector, site country and estimated technicians and days, and gives each lead a score from 0 to 100 banded hot, warm, nurture or cold. Leads import from CSV, and a business card photographed at a port or energy event becomes a CRM lead with one click. Drip email sequences by service line keep marine and refinery prospects on separate tracks, and AI-generated campaign emails can run on a model hosted on your own server.

Timesheets record inspection, travel, standby and setup hours, with billable flags and rate multipliers, and approved hours feed invoices. The financial dashboard shows revenue, gross margin, EBITDA and outstanding invoices across 12 months, so you can see which sector is actually paying the bills.

Offshore fabrication and manufacturing work from a New Orleans base

A lot of New Orleans NDT work never sets foot in a refinery. Fabrication yards on the West Bank and down the bayous build and repair offshore structures, skids, cranes and vessels, and manufacturing clients across the metro area need weld and component inspection on their own schedules. That work is weld-map heavy and document-heavy.

In the Atlantis ERP, fabrication jobs are set up as projects with client PO, contract, methods, codes, scope and acceptance criteria. Tasks record the component, method, technician, result, indication and defect counts, and procedure and WPS references, so a weld map can be tracked joint by joint. RT, UT, PAUT, TOFD, MT, PT and VT reports carry drawing and WPS numbers, and the third-party inspector field records the client's or owner's inspector where one witnesses the work.

Because fabrication clients often pay on milestones rather than day rates, quotations and invoices can be set up around the project and PO, with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals kept separate. Surveys can collect client feedback at job close, and the Maintenance app tracks preventive and corrective requests on instruments and shop equipment between jobs.

Procedure control for New Orleans Level IIIs

With several industries in play, a New Orleans contractor usually maintains more procedures than a single-sector shop. The procedure register holds document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard, acceptance criteria and text or file, with draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published states. Approved revisions are locked, earlier revisions kept as snapshots, and approvers reminded by email. An AI-assisted first draft speeds up writing, with your Level III reviewing and approving.

Implementation for NDT companies in New Orleans

Implementation begins with mapping your customer segments, report formats and cert schemes. We load technicians, certificates, instruments and calibration history, customers and sites, then configure templates for your marine, refinery and fabrication clients. Anything not built in is configured during implementation.

Where a client or your accounting package needs data, the open REST API integrates with SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation. Atlantis NDT sets up and supports the ERP directly; the founder is an ASNT NDT Level III. Ask about an implementation plan for your New Orleans company.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP in New Orleans

Affordable customizable ERP for inspection companies in New Orleans

An affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in New Orleans is one that fits a small multi-sector contractor and grows with it. The Atlantis ERP is scoped per company and priced by quote on request.

Many New Orleans companies start with reports in marine mode, certificates, asset management and team assignments, then add CRM, quotations and invoicing. Dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certs expiring and overdue equipment returns. The eLearning portal supports SNT-TC-1A-based Level I, II and III courses, and the Practical NDT 3D simulator lets trainees practise before site work. Book a demo for your New Orleans team or request a quote.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for a New Orleans inspection company?

For a contractor serving marine, refinery and offshore clients, the best fit is software with marine-mode reporting, multi-scheme certification tracking and sector-aware billing in one place. The Atlantis ERP provides that and is configured to your company.

Does the ERP support ABS and other class society reports?

Yes. Marine mode merges the classification-society certificate from a library including ABS, DNV, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS and ClassNK into the report PDF.

Can it produce IRIS and ECT reports for exchanger work?

Yes. IRIS and ECT each have their own report type and numbering sequence.

Can technicians report from a barge or offshore?

The offline field app works without signal and syncs later.

Is it suitable for small NDT companies?

Yes. Start with the core NDT apps and add others as needed. Pricing is quote on request.

Does it integrate with our accounting software?

The open REST API connects to QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Maximo or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation.