Inspection and NDT ERP software in Western Australia
Atlantis NDT ERP is inspection-management software for NDT service providers, inspection contractors, fabricators and QA departments operating in Western Australia. 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 Odoo-based platform.
Who operates in Western Australia
North West Shelf and Pluto LNG, Wheatstone and Gorgon, the Karratha and Port Hedland resource export infrastructure, Kwinana industrial area, and the Perth-based inspection and integrity contractor base servicing offshore and Pilbara assets.
What governs inspection work here
NOPSEMA regulates offshore petroleum safety and integrity, WorkSafe WA covers onshore, and AS/NZS 3788 governs pressure-equipment in-service inspection alongside AS 4037 and the ASME and API codes used on internationally engineered assets. Personnel are certified under AINDT to ISO 9712 or to ASNT.
What actually decides the purchase in Western Australia
Remote Pilbara and offshore work makes mobilisation expensive and inspection windows short, so planning accuracy and offline field capture that never loses a record are worth more here than almost anywhere else.
- Certification currency per method — SNT-TC-1A, ISO 9712, NAS 410 and client-specific approvals — with dispatch lockout the moment anything lapses.
- Calibration control with ISO 17025 traceability across flaw detectors, thickness gauges, probes, wedges, reference blocks and step wedges.
- Condition-driven inspection scheduling: next-inspection dates computed from measured corrosion rate under API 510/570/653 rather than a fixed calendar.
- Offline mobile field capture for confined spaces, vessels, offshore platforms and remote sites with no connectivity.
- Client-specific report templates rendered from one dataset, so the same survey issues three ways without re-keying.
- Work-order-level job costing including mobilisation, standby and travel, so per-contract margin is visible while the contract is running.
- Document control on procedures, written practices and technique sheets, with the revision in force on any historical inspection date recoverable.
Regional asset base in detail
- Perth — Perth is the operational gateway to Western Australia's LNG mega-projects — Gorgon, Wheatstone, and North West Shelf — as well as major iron ore and mineral processing facilities operated by BHP, Rio Tinto, and Woodside. The combination of offshore FLNG vessels, onshore LNG trains, cryogenic storage, and high-pressure separator vessels creates one of the most technically demanding digital twin environments globally.
- Karratha — Karratha is part of Western Australia's LNG + mining + offshore ecosystem where Atlantis NDT Digital Twin platform delivers inspection + RBI + FFS overlay aligned with Woodside, Chevron, BHP, Rio Tinto, FMG operator workflows. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — FIFO-friendly + AS/NZS-aligned reporting..
- Port Hedland — Port Hedland is the world's largest bulk export port by tonnage, moving iron ore from BHP's Pilbara operations and Fortescue Metals Group's mines through massive ore car dumpers, stacker-reclaimers, and ship loaders operating in a cyclone-prone, highly corrosive coastal environment. The combination of extreme heat, salt-laden air, and continuous mechanical loading accelerates fatigue cracking and corrosion on structural steel, conveyor systems, and berth infrastructure that BHP and FMG cannot afford to take offline without warning.
- Kwinana — Kwinana is Western Australia's largest heavy industrial strip, built around the former BP Kwinana Refinery site, Alcoa's Kwinana Alumina Refinery, CSBP's ammonia and fertiliser plant, and BOC industrial gas facilities, all clustered along Cockburn Sound south of Fremantle. The strip's ageing alumina digestion vessels, ammonia synthesis loops, and bulk storage tanks operate under major hazard facility rules, where corrosion, cracking, and thickness loss must be tracked rigorously to avoid unplanned shutdowns.
- Darwin — Darwin is part of Western Australia's LNG + mining + offshore ecosystem where Atlantis NDT Digital Twin platform delivers inspection + RBI + FFS overlay aligned with Woodside, Chevron, BHP, Rio Tinto, FMG operator workflows. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — FIFO-friendly + AS/NZS-aligned reporting..
- Gladstone — Gladstone is part of Western Australia's LNG + mining + offshore ecosystem where Atlantis NDT Digital Twin platform delivers inspection + RBI + FFS overlay aligned with Woodside, Chevron, BHP, Rio Tinto, FMG operator workflows. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — FIFO-friendly + AS/NZS-aligned reporting..
- Adelaide — Adelaide anchors South Australia's energy and defence-industrial base — Santos runs its Cooper Basin gas operations and LNG-linked infrastructure from its Adelaide headquarters, while the Osborne Naval Shipyard builds and sustains the Collins-class submarines and Hunter-class frigates under the AUKUS and Attack-class programs. The mix of ageing gas processing plant, high-value naval steel hulls, and pressure vessels demands rigorous asset integrity tracking that satisfies both process safety expectations and Defence quality standards.
- Melbourne — Melbourne serves Australia east-coast industrial, marine, refining, infrastructure, or heritage markets where Atlantis NDT Digital Twin platform delivers inspection + RBI + FFS overlay aligned with Viva Energy, ExxonMobil, AGL, EnergyAustralia, BHP, and Tier-1 port + rail + tunnel operator workflows. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable..
ERP coverage across Western Australia
Perth · Karratha · Port Hedland · Kwinana · Darwin · Gladstone · Adelaide · Melbourne · Sydney
Frequently asked questions
Which ERP suits an inspection or NDT company in Western Australia?
The deciding capabilities in Western Australia are certification currency with hard lockout on lapse, instrument and reference-block calibration traceability, condition-driven inspection scheduling under API 510/570/653, offline field capture, and job costing at work-order level. Generic ERP and generic CMMS both model the money and the maintenance well and the personnel-qualification and calibration evidence badly, which is exactly the evidence a client audit tests. Remote Pilbara and offshore work makes mobilisation expensive and inspection windows short, so planning accuracy and offline field capture that never loses a record are worth more here than almost anywhere else.
Which regulations and client audit regimes does it need to support in Western Australia?
NOPSEMA regulates offshore petroleum safety and integrity, WorkSafe WA covers onshore, and AS/NZS 3788 governs pressure-equipment in-service inspection alongside AS 4037 and the ASME and API codes used on internationally engineered assets. Personnel are certified under AINDT to ISO 9712 or to ASNT. The platform holds the underlying evidence in structured, exportable form — qualification currency, calibration certificates and traceability, procedure revisions under document control, and inspection results with the provenance applicable at the time of test — so producing an audit pack is an export rather than a document hunt.
How long does implementation take?
Six to ten weeks for a typical 20–60 technician business: one to two weeks of discovery and migration mapping, three weeks configuring certification, calibration and work-order modules against your written practice, two weeks piloting on one client contract, then rollout. Historical certification records and calibration certificates are migrated as part of that, which is why the timeline is measured in weeks rather than days.
Can it run alongside the operator's own SAP or Maximo?
Yes, and that is the normal arrangement. The operator's system stays authoritative for their work management and cost; Atlantis runs your side of the relationship — crews, certifications, calibration, scheduling, reporting and job costing — and pushes findings across by REST API or supported connector so results land where the client expects them.
See it on your own workflow
Free 30-minute walkthrough using your actual job types, certification matrix and client reporting formats, co-presented by an ASNT NDT Level III. Affordable, accessible, fully customizable — request a demo and a tailored quote.
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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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Perth is a major Western Australian port with LNG and oil and gas operations. The city's inspection environment includes LNG facilities, marine terminals, and energy infrastructure. An NDT ERP serving this market has to carry the evidence those operators audit against — WorkSafe WA, NOPSEMA, AS 3788, AS/NZS ISO 9001 — with technician certification, equipment calibration and inspection records tied to the job that used them.
In practice that means karratha, Port Hedland and Dampier FIFO mobilisation packs with BOSIET/OPITO equivalents, medical and qualification currency checked per rotation. Operators including Shell Australia, Chevron, Port Authority 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 | LNG, Port Operations, Oil & Gas | Sets which methods, report formats and codes the system must handle |
| Codes audited against | WorkSafe WA, NOPSEMA, AS 3788, AS/NZS ISO 9001, AINDT/ASNT SNT-TC-1A | Each demands retrievable evidence, not a claim of compliance |
| Typical workflow here | Karratha, Port Hedland and Dampier FIFO mobilisation packs with BOSIET/OPITO equivalents, medical and qualification currency checked per rotation. | The job shape the configuration follows |
| Second workflow | Gorgon, Wheatstone and NWS LNG cryogenic inspection scheduling aligned with operator (Chevron, Woodside) written practices. | 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 Perth?
Evidence against WorkSafe WA, NOPSEMA, AS 3788, AS/NZS ISO 9001, AINDT/ASNT SNT-TC-1A. 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 Perth 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 Perth?
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 Perth?
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.