NDT Inspection Management ERP in North Charleston — Certification, Calibration and Work Orders in One System
Atlantis NDT ERP is inspection-management software for NDT service companies, inspection contractors and QA departments operating in North Charleston, USA. It replaces the spreadsheet stack most inspection businesses run on: technician certification currency, equipment calibration control, inspection scheduling, multi-crew work orders, client asset registers, job costing and audit-ready document retention — on one fully customized platform with 30+ business apps behind it.
What North Charleston inspection companies get out of it
Local use cases
- Boeing South Carolina 787 structure and systems inspection work-order routing scaled to the site's production-rate increase, with Nadcap AC7114 traceability on every closed work order.
- SC Ports North Charleston Terminal container-crane and heavy-lift structural inspection scheduling alongside aerospace work in the same technician pool.
- Qualification cross-mapping for technicians with Naval Nuclear Power Training Command backgrounds moving from military reactor-operator training into civilian ASNT/NAS 410 inspection roles.
Compliance and client-audit frameworks
- NAS 410
- Nadcap AC7114
- ASNT SNT-TC-1A
- FAA Part 145
- ISO 9712
Modules inspection companies actually switch for
- Certification tracking — SNT-TC-1A / ISO 9712 / NAS 410 currency with computed status, 90-day expiry warning tasks, email alerts and blocked double-booking.
- Calibration management — instrument, block and probe calibration intervals with ISO 17025 traceability chains.
- Work order management — multi-crew, multi-site dispatch with mobile offline field capture.
- Document control — procedures, written practices and technique sheets under ISO 9001 revision control.
- Asset management — NDT equipment by serial number with issue, return, calibration and maintenance history.
Integrations
Atlantis ERP has an open REST API, so it connects to SAP, Maximo, NetSuite or any other system that accepts API connections; each integration is scoped with you during implementation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Atlantis NDT ERP suit an inspection company based in North Charleston?
Yes. The platform ships pre-configured for inspection and testing businesses — ASNT SNT-TC-1A and ISO 9712 certification tracking with expiry warnings and blocked double-booking, equipment calibration due-date control, work-order routing across multiple crews and sites, and client-ready reporting. Regional settings, currencies, tax treatment and language for USA are configured during onboarding rather than sold as an add-on module.
How long does implementation take for a mid-size North Charleston inspection contractor?
A typical 20–60 technician inspection business goes live in 6–10 weeks: week 1–2 discovery and data migration mapping, week 3–5 configuration of certification, calibration and work-order modules, week 6–7 pilot with one crew and one client contract, week 8–10 rollout and training. Historic certification records, calibration certificates and client/asset registers are migrated from spreadsheets or the incumbent system as part of the implementation.
Can it replace the spreadsheets we use for technician certification and equipment calibration?
That is the most common reason inspection companies adopt it. Every technician's method-level qualification, vision-exam date, practical and general exam records and on-the-job hours sit against a written practice, and each certificate carries a computed status, with 90-day expiry warning tasks, email alerts, timesheet warnings and blocked double-booking. Equipment calibration is tracked the same way — due dates on every flaw detector, thickness gauge and reference block raise warnings before they lapse. That removes the two failure modes that most often cost inspection firms a client audit.
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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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North Charleston carries the Lowcountry's manufacturing weight. Boeing South Carolina is the sole global final-assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner and broke ground in November 2025 on a $1 billion campus expansion to lift build rates. An NDT ERP serving this market has to carry the evidence those operators audit against — NAS 410, Nadcap AC7114, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, FAA Part 145 — with technician certification, equipment calibration and.
Detyens Shipyards, on the former Charleston Naval Shipyard, is among the largest commercial repair yards on the US East Coast, with 33 marine and industrial firms sharing the site. Mercedes-Benz Vans in Ladson has assembled over 430,000 Sprinter, Metris and eSprinter vans since 2006. Ingevity's plant, operating since the 1940s, is investing $53.3 million. In adjacent Berkeley County, Nucor Steel Berkeley rolls up to 3.5 million tons of sheet and structural steel and Century Aluminum's Mt. Holly smelter is nameplated near 230,000 tonnes. In practice that means boeing South Carolina 787 structure and systems inspection work-order routing scaled to the site's production-rate increase, with Nadcap AC7114 traceability on every closed work order. Operators including Boeing South Carolina, Detyens Shipyards, Mercedes-Benz Vans Charleston (Ladson) 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
| Factor | What applies | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Sectors served | Aerospace, Shipbuilding, Manufacturing, Steel, Petrochemicals | Sets which methods, report formats and codes the system must handle |
| Codes audited against | NAS 410, Nadcap AC7114, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, FAA Part 145, ISO 9712 | Each demands retrievable evidence, not a claim of compliance |
| Typical workflow here | Boeing South Carolina 787 structure and systems inspection work-order routing scaled to the site's production-rate increase, with Nadcap AC7114 traceability on every closed work order. | The job shape the configuration follows |
| Second workflow | SC Ports North Charleston Terminal container-crane and heavy-lift structural inspection scheduling alongside aerospace work in the same technician pool. | Where scheduling and record-keeping usually break down first |
| What must be retrievable on demand | Technician certification currency · equipment calibration status · the report against the asset that generated it | These three are what an auditor asks for first |
| Deployment | Cloud or on-premise · configured to the codes above · offline field capture | Field crews lose connectivity; the record cannot depend on it |
What must an NDT ERP track for inspection firms in North Charleston?
Evidence against NAS 410, Nadcap AC7114, ASNT SNT-TC-1A, FAA Part 145, ISO 9712. 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 North Charleston 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 North Charleston?
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 North Charleston?
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.
Inspection management software for North Charleston's aerospace, marine and industrial contractors
Short answer: an NDT company in North Charleston needs software that can onboard technicians quickly, keep aerospace and industrial qualifications current, produce reports in each customer's format, and bill a shared technician pool across very different jobs. The Atlantis ERP solution is an NDT ERP configured for exactly that mix, around your written practice and your customers. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable, with a quote on request.
North Charleston sits at the centre of the Lowcountry's industrial economy. Boeing South Carolina is the home of the 787 Dreamliner programme, and in November 2025 it broke ground on a roughly one-billion-dollar expansion that includes a second final assembly building, with the stated aim of lifting production toward ten aircraft a month. Joint Base Charleston, renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham in August 2026, is home to the 437th Airlift Wing and its C-17 Globemaster III fleet. Ship repair, port infrastructure, automotive assembly, steel and chemical plants fill out the rest of the region.
The overview above names the operators. This section is about running an inspection company that serves them: growing a qualified crew fast, recording mixed qualifications, reporting aerospace and marine work, controlling procedures and equipment, and turning a shared technician pool into accurate invoices.
Technician certification tracking software for a crew that is growing fast
Short answer: every certificate sits in one register with scheme, level (trainee, I, II or III), method, certifying body, industry sector, dates, OJT hours, training hours, exam result and attachments. Status is computed automatically as active, expiring soon, expired or revoked, and a daily check raises warning tasks 90 days before a certificate or vision test runs out.
When a production rate goes up, subcontractors hire. The first thing that breaks is the qualification file: new starters with partial hours, transferred certificates from previous employers, vision tests from different clinics, and exam sheets waiting to be graded. Certificate templates per scheme set the validity in months, whether a vision test and examination are required, and the minimum OJT and training hours, so a new hire's file is checked against the same rules as everyone else's. Examination sheets hold general, specific and practical scores against a passing score (70 percent by default) with the exam files attached.
Vision tests are separate records, with near vision at Jaeger J1 or J2, far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic, certificate file and expiry. The employee NDT profile carries highest level, methods certified, radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry. Daily email alerts for technician certificates, calibration certificates and company certifications go to the people you choose, with your own look-ahead and resend interval. Timesheets warn if a technician logs hours while a certificate is invalid. See Certificates and Employees.
Recording NAS 410, SNT-TC-1A and military NDT backgrounds
Short answer: SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN and CSWIP are built-in schemes, and NAS 410 or any other scheme is recorded under the other-scheme option with its own template. One technician can hold certificates under several schemes, each tracked on its own dates.
North Charleston's workforce draws heavily on people leaving military service, including aircraft maintainers and NDT specialists from the flying units at the joint base and from the wider military. Those backgrounds bring training and experience that an employer's written practice may credit toward qualification, but it has to be documented. The certificate record holds training hours, OJT hours and attachments, so the evidence your Level III relied on sits with the certificate it supports. Where a customer's contract or a repair station's procedures call for NAS 410 qualification, the NAS 410 template carries its own validity, vision and examination rules.
The ERP records these qualifications; it does not grant them. Qualification and certification decisions stay with your Level III and your written practice, and customer or regulatory approvals, such as those that apply to aerospace repair stations, remain your company's own responsibility. What changes is that the evidence is in one place and every expiry is visible months ahead. Company certifications, such as ISO certificates and customer or industry approvals, are tracked with their own alert days.
NDT reporting software for aerospace structures and components
Short answer: the ERP has 17 report types, each with its own numbering sequence, covering UT, PAUT, TOFD, eddy current, RT and computed radiography, PT, MT, VT, hardness, PMI and more. Reports move from draft to in progress, review, approved and sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures.
Aerospace structures work in the region is heavy on ultrasonic inspection of composite and metallic parts, eddy current around fasteners and holes, penetrant on metallic components and radiography where the part calls for it. UT reports carry a probe calibration table. PAUT reports record focal laws. RT reports record source, technique, IQI type and placement, and computed radiography has its own report type. PT reports record method and developer, and MT reports record technique and particle type. Every report records work order, request, contract and drawing numbers along with the procedure and standard references, and ends with a result of acceptable, not acceptable, or acceptable with remarks.
Aerospace customers usually specify report formats. Company templates are versioned and can be Excel, Word, PDF or HTML with your logo, header and footer. Excel templates are filled automatically by mapping fields to cells, so a customer's own inspection record form is completed from the report data. On the shop floor or flight line, the offline field app installs from a browser, keeps drafts and photos without signal, captures on-screen signatures and syncs later. See NDT Reports and the companion Digital Twin Reporting Software.
Marine mode for ship repair and port work
Short answer: marine mode adds a vessel cover page and photo, inspection location and dates, and produces one PDF that merges the classification-society certificate, the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate, with inspection photos two to a row.
Charleston's commercial ship repair and the Port of Charleston keep marine inspection work steady: hull and structural welds, shaft and rudder components, tank and void inspection, and UT thickness gauging on steel plate. The class-society library covers DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas, RINA, IRS and ClassNK, so the right certificate is merged into the package automatically rather than attached by hand the night before a survey.
UT thickness reports record readings by direction, which is how gauging surveys are usually laid out. MT, PT, VT and UT reports cover weld repairs, and holiday/coating reports document coating checks on tanks and hull areas. Because the same technicians often work marine, port and aerospace jobs in the same month, the certificate register shows at a glance who holds the right method and level for each. Ask for a demo covering both marine-mode and aerospace reports.
Crew dispatch software for a shared technician pool
Short answer: jobs run as team assignments from planned to dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates and mobilisation dates. Double-booking of technicians and equipment serial numbers is blocked, and assigning an out-of-calibration instrument raises a warning.
North Charleston contractors often split one pool of Level IIs between an aerospace customer's production schedule, a ship in dry dock, a crane or structural job at the port, and industrial plants in Berkeley and Dorchester counties. The technician availability calendar records assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable days and blocks overlaps. Time Off feeds it automatically. The technician view shows status, current assignment, utilisation percentage and next available date, so the operations manager knows who can be moved when a production customer changes the schedule overnight.
Calendar, kanban and list views give dispatch, quality and accounts their own view of the same work. The Fleet app records vehicle purpose, whether a vehicle can carry radioactive sources, transport licence number and expiry, and assignment to project and driver with dates and mileage, which keeps radiography crews and their vehicles planned together. See Team Assignments and Fleet.
Calibration management software for UT, eddy current and radiography equipment
Short answer: every instrument, probe and source-related item is tracked by serial number with type, assignee, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories, lifecycle state and calibration frequency and status. Calibration records hold provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, pass, fail or conditional result and next due date.
Aerospace auditors expect to trace a report back to an instrument and its calibration on the day of inspection. The calibration certificate register holds the lab's accreditation number, the certificate PDF, a valid, expiring or expired status and expiry alerts. Purchasing supports vendors typed as OEM, dealer or calibration lab with their accreditation number and expiry, and order lines can be linked to the exact serial sent for calibration or repair.
The issue and return workflow, with supervisor and manager approval, records condition at issue and return. Reservations prevent two jobs claiming the same kit. The maintenance log records preventive and corrective work, repairs, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacements with condition before and after. Consumables such as couplant, penetrant, developer, PPE and stationery carry reorder levels and a low-stock flag. Dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certificates expiring and expired, and issued equipment overdue for return. See Asset Management.
Procedure control for aerospace and industrial customers
Short answer: the procedure register holds document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard, acceptance criteria and the procedure text or file. Procedures move from draft to submitted, reviewed, approved and published, approved revisions are locked, and each revision keeps a snapshot.
Contractors serving aerospace and industrial customers keep parallel procedure sets with different standards and acceptance criteria. The revision history, with prepared, reviewed and approved names and dates, lets a Level III show what was in force on a given date. Rejected drafts keep their reason. Approvers get email notifications and reminders. An AI-assisted first draft, falling back to a built-in template, gives the Level III a starting point for a new technique. Nothing is published until they approve it. See Procedures.
NDT quoting and invoicing software for production and project work
Short answer: quotes carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, with NDT services as products flagged by method and category, and they convert to sales orders when a customer accepts and signs online. Approved timesheets feed invoices with method, technician, equipment serial and rate type on each line.
Production support is often billed against a standing PO with monthly invoices, while marine and industrial jobs are quoted and billed per project. Invoices carry the NDT project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with separate subtotals for labour, equipment and consumables, and cost centres per line. Timesheets record work type (inspection, travel, standby or setup), method, site, client and equipment serial, with a billable flag, rate multiplier and approval. Field expenses come in through Expenses and can be re-billed to the job.
A financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, outstanding invoices, bills and expenses over 12 months. QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP or any other system that accepts API connections can be integrated through the open REST API, with scope agreed during implementation. See Quotations and Invoicing. Request a quote shaped to your crew size and customers.
Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP in a mixed aerospace and marine business
Short answer: a mixed business multiplies the weaknesses of spreadsheets and generic ERP, because each customer type has its own qualification, report and billing rules. An NDT ERP holds those rules per scheme, per method and per customer.
| Need | Spreadsheets | Generic ERP | Atlantis ERP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onboarding new technicians | Checklists by email | HR record without NDT fields | Certificate templates with hours, vision and exam rules |
| NAS 410 and SNT-TC-1A on one person | Two lists | Not modelled | Multiple schemes per technician, status computed |
| Aerospace customer report forms | Retyped | Not available | Excel cell mapping and versioned templates |
| Class-society packages | Assembled by hand | Not available | Marine mode merges class, Level II and calibration certificates |
| Shared technician pool | Whiteboard | Resource calendar | Availability calendar, utilisation, double-booking blocked |
| Invoices tied to timesheets | Retyped | Without NDT detail | Rate multipliers and method detail on invoice lines |
Training pipeline: eLearning, the Practical NDT simulator and local colleges
Short answer: the eLearning portal records course completions and training hours that support each technician's certificate evidence, and the Practical NDT 3D simulator gives trainees hands-on practice before production work.
The region invests in aerospace skills. Trident Technical College's Aeronautical Training Center in North Charleston includes hangars, an aircraft ramp and a full-scale 787 barrel section for hands-on training. Graduates and military transitioners arriving at an NDT company still need method training and documented hours under the employer's written practice. The eLearning app provides Level I, II and III course sections, protected video lessons from OneDrive or SharePoint, quizzes with questions importable from Word files, completion certificates and learner dashboards, with accounts managed by administrators. Atlantis offers NDT training based on ASNT SNT-TC-1A through our training programmes, and trainees can practise on the Practical NDT simulator. Atlantis does not provide NAS 410 or other scheme training, though the ERP records those certificates.
Asset owners in the region who want inspection results mapped onto 3D models can use Atlantis Digital Twins, and those needing inspection services can see Atlantis inspection services.
If you run an NDT or inspection company in North Charleston, the quickest way to judge fit is to see your own certificates, instruments and a real job in the system. Book a guided walkthrough for your North Charleston team, or request a quote scoped to your crew size and apps — quotes are on request and returned within one business day.
Frequently asked questions
Can the ERP record NAS 410 certificates for aerospace work?
Yes. NAS 410 is recorded under the other-scheme option with its own template for validity, vision test, examination and minimum hours, and it gets the same status tracking and 90-day warnings as the built-in schemes.
Does it help when we hire a lot of technicians quickly?
Yes. Certificate templates check each new hire's hours, vision test and exam against your written practice, exam sheets hold the grading evidence, and the Expiring Soon and Expired lists show where action is needed.
Can one system handle aerospace and marine reports?
Yes. The 17 report types cover aerospace and industrial methods, and marine mode builds class-society packages with the class, Level II and calibration certificates merged into the PDF.
Does it prevent double-booking a technician?
Yes. Team assignments block double-booking of technicians and equipment serial numbers, and warn when an out-of-calibration instrument is assigned.
Can we keep QuickBooks?
Yes. The open REST API integrates with QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP or any system that accepts API connections, scoped during implementation.
Where can I see pricing?
Pricing is not published. The Atlantis ERP is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, with a written quote on request after a short conversation.