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

Built for any business that runs on operations

Most companies do not fail at their craft. They lose time, margin and goodwill in the gaps between the tools they use to run the place — a quoting spreadsheet that does not talk to the job sheet, a job sheet that does not reach accounts, and a compliance folder nobody can search when a client asks. Atlantis closes those gaps by putting the whole operation on one platform, so information is entered once and everything downstream stays in step.

What you can run on it

• Sales and CRM — leads, quotes, follow-ups and the pipeline that tells you what next month looks like.
• Projects and job costing — plan the work, track the hours and materials against it, and see the margin while the job is still live rather than at final account.
• Field and service teams — dispatch, schedules, mobile capture that works with no signal, and sign-off from site.
• Inventory and purchasing — stock, suppliers, reorder points and goods receipt, joined to the jobs that consume them.
• People — records, qualifications and licences with renewal reminders, timesheets, leave and payroll.
• Quality and documents — procedures and forms under revision control, with the audit trail an inspection or accreditation body actually asks for.
• Accounts — invoicing, expenses, multi-currency and the reporting your accountant stops chasing you for.

Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — and we mean each word

Affordable because the whole suite is included rather than sold to you a module at a time, and because implementation is done by people who have run operations rather than by a chain of subcontractors. Accessible because it runs in a browser and on a phone, works for a small team on day one, and does not need a specialist on staff to keep it alive. Fully customizable because your process is the thing that makes you competitive — the software should bend to it, not the other way round.

Industries we configure for

Service businesses and contractors, manufacturing and fabrication, trading and distribution, laboratories and testing houses, engineering consultancies, construction and facilities, and asset owners across energy, marine, aerospace and infrastructure. Inspection and testing is where we started, and it remains the sector we go deepest in — but the platform underneath is general-purpose, and most of what it does has nothing to do with inspection at all.

What happens when you get in touch

A short conversation, not a sales sequence. We ask how the business runs today and where it hurts, show you the platform doing that work, and send a written quote shaped to your region, your team size and the scope you actually need. No obligation, nothing to install first, and no pressure to decide on the call. Reach out and tell us what you are trying to fix.

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The New Orleans NDT services market, from the provider's side

Greater New Orleans mixes river-industrial and marine work: the chemical corridor downriver, one of the busiest port systems in the hemisphere, shipyards and topside fabricators, and offshore logistics for the Gulf.

Inspection companies split between plant programmes on the river, marine gaugings and survey support, and the offshore fabrication and repair work that moves through the yards. For the companies doing this work, the operational load concentrates around the downriver chemical plants, the port's wharves and cranes, and the shipyards toward Avondale — and the back office that keeps crews certified, equipment calibrated and reports moving is what decides which providers grow.

Marine and port inspection: survey-driven, class-society-shaped

Marine NDT runs on the classification societies' clock — gaugings and surveys tied to dry-dock windows that do not move for anyone's staffing problems. Inspection companies serving shipyards and ports juggle vessel projects measured in thousands of thickness readings, crane and cargo-gear examinations under statutory schedules, and clients who want the survey package in the class society's expected format. Software that captures readings against a hull grid and produces the report the surveyor will actually accept saves days per vessel, and days per vessel is what wins yard relationships.

The business side is feast-and-famine: dry-dockings cluster, then the yard goes quiet. Scheduling and certification tracking across a workforce that surges with contract technicians — each of whom must be verified before they touch class work — is where an ERP for inspection companies earns more than any single feature.

What an ERP built for NDT companies covers in New Orleans

Survey-driven work in New Orleans needs volume handling — thousands of readings per vessel — which is why Atlantis pairs NDT inspection software capture with the scheduling and certification machinery around it:

Certification and personnel tracking. Every technician's methods, levels, expiry dates, eye-exam currency and Written Practice records under SNT-TC-1A or CP-189 — with the audit view a client's quality department expects, ready before they ask.

Equipment and calibration management. The instrument register with calibration due dates, certificates attached, and traceability that satisfies ISO 17025-minded reviewers — so nothing leaves the shop out of date.

Work order and crew scheduling. Who is qualified, who is available, what the job needs — matched in one view, from a single technician call-out to a full turnaround mobilisation.

NDT reporting. Findings captured once — in the field or the shop, offline if needed — flowing into code-referenced report templates, so the deliverable ships while the competitor is still retyping field sheets. This is the inspection management software layer clients actually see.

Quoting, invoicing and job costing. Hours, equipment and consumables tied to each work order as they happen, so every job shows its true margin and the next bid learns from the last one.

Cloud-based, mobile in the field, and fully customizable to how your operation already works. See the NDT inspection software platform · the full business management suite · talk to us about New Orleans.

Frequently asked questions

Does Atlantis understand how New Orleans inspection companies operate?

The platform is built by ASNT Level III practitioners around the workflows above — certification tracking, calibration, field data capture, code-referenced reporting — rather than adapted from generic field-service software. Regional specifics like the client mix around the downriver chemical plants, the port's wharves and cranes, and the shipyards toward Avondale shape configuration, not custom development.

Can we keep our existing report formats and client requirements?

Yes — report templates, client-specific deliverables and your Written Practice structure are configuration. The system adapts to how you already serve your clients; switching software should never mean renegotiating what your clients receive.

Related: why inspection companies replace spreadsheets · NDT ERP vs generic ERP · compared with NetSuite.

New Orleans inspection work follows the river and the marsh. PBF's Chalmette Refining runs 185,000 bpd on the Mississippi in St. Bernard Parish; the Shell/Valero complex at Norco sits upriver, and Entergy's Waterford 3 PWR is at Killona, 25 miles west.

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East holds 43 acres of climate-controlled floor where Boeing fabricates SLS core stages and Lockheed Martin welds Orion pressure vessels. Textron Marine & Land Systems builds Ship-to-Shore Connectors at Slidell, and Bollinger's Lockport and Houma yards turn out Coast Guard cutters and Navajo-class salvage ships. The Port of South Louisiana leads all US ports by tonnage. In practice that means mississippi River Chemical Corridor refinery turnaround work-order routing with API 510/570 reports and LDNR statutory evidence. Operators including Chalmette Refining (PBF Energy, Chalmette, LA), NASA Michoud Assembly Facility (Boeing SLS core stage, Lockheed Martin Orion), Entergy Waterford 3 (Killona, St. Charles Parish) set the pre-qualification bar their contractors inherit. The system of record for that evidence is the ERP, not a spreadsheet a technician maintains between jobs.

Source: Per-city industrial and compliance research file; ASNT SNT-TC-1A employer certification framework

What must an NDT ERP track for inspection firms in New Orleans?

Evidence against OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, Louisiana DNR (LDNR), API 510/570/653, USCG/PHMSA (LNG/maritime). That means each technician's certification currency by method and level, each instrument's calibration status on the day it was used, and every inspection report bound to the asset and the job that produced it. An auditor asks for those three before anything else.

Can an inspection company in New Orleans run this alongside its existing accounting?

Yes. The ERP owns operations — jobs, technicians, equipment, reports — and pushes finished invoices to the accounting system, which keeps the chart of accounts, tax and reconciliation. For US firms that usually means QuickBooks; the split is documented in the QuickBooks integration guide rather than forcing a migration nobody asked for.

Does it work offline for field crews in New Orleans?

Yes. Field capture runs offline and syncs when the device reconnects, because turnaround decks, tank interiors and remote sites have no usable signal and a record that depends on connectivity is a record that gets rewritten from memory hours later. Offline capture is the difference between a contemporaneous record and a reconstruction.

How long does implementation take for a firm in New Orleans?

The configuration follows the codes and workflows above rather than a fixed template, so the timeline is set by how much existing data has to be migrated and cleaned — certification records and calibration history are the two that consume the time. Firms usually run the first job cycle in parallel before cutting over.

What happens to inspection records if a technician leaves?

They stay with the asset and the job, which is the point. Employer-based certification ends when the holder leaves, but the reports they signed remain part of the asset's inspection history and are still auditable. A system that stores records per technician rather than per asset loses that history on every departure.

Related: the NDT ERP overview, personnel certification tracking, equipment calibration tracking, QuickBooks integration and the RFP requirements checklist. Firms preparing for an audit should also read the NDT programme gap assessment.