NDT Inspection Management Software for Inspection Companies in Queensland

Short answer: For an NDT company in Queensland, the Atlantis ERP solution is one system for the whole operation: AINDT (ISO 9712) and ASNT certificates per technician with automatic expiry status, instruments and probes by serial number with calibration status, crew dispatch to Gladstone, the Surat Basin gas fields, the Bowen Basin and North Queensland, offline field reports, timesheets, quotes and invoices. It is set up remotely by Atlantis NDT, typically 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff depending on how clean your current records are. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable. Request a Queensland demo.

Queensland is a big state with several separate inspection economies. An NDT company based in Brisbane may on the same week have a crew on an LNG train on Curtis Island, a pipeline radiography spread west of Roma, an MT and UT team in a coal handling plant near Moranbah, and a technician doing thickness surveys at a refinery on the Brisbane River. The clients differ, the travel differs, the site rules differ, and the certificates each client wants to see differ. When the office runs on spreadsheets, someone spends every Friday checking expiry dates and calibration certificates by hand. This page explains where the Queensland work is, which certificates and records clients and regulators ask for, what the Atlantis ERP does about it, and how to compare it with the alternatives.

Where the NDT work is in Queensland

Direct answer: Queensland NDT demand concentrates in five areas: Gladstone (three LNG plants on Curtis Island, alumina, aluminium and power), the Surat and Bowen Basin gas fields and their pipelines, the Bowen Basin coal mines and the Mackay coal ports, the North West Minerals Province around Mount Isa and the Townsville refineries, and the Brisbane industrial corridor with its refinery, port and fabricators.

Gladstone and Curtis Island. Gladstone has one of the densest concentrations of process plant in Australia. On Curtis Island sit the three coal seam gas to LNG projects: Queensland Curtis LNG, Gladstone LNG and Australia Pacific LNG. On the mainland are the Queensland Alumina and Yarwun alumina refineries, the Boyne aluminium smelter, Gladstone Power Station and a busy export port. Shutdowns at these plants bring in large crews for UT thickness, PAUT and TOFD on welds and vessels, radiography, MT and PT, and visual inspection of tanks and structures. The Gladstone ERP page goes into more local detail.

Gas fields and pipelines. The coal seam gas fields of the Surat and Bowen basins feed the Curtis Island plants through long transmission pipelines, with large gathering networks, compressor stations and water treatment plants in between. Pipeline construction, tie-ins and integrity digs mean weld radiography or automated UT, coating inspection and thickness work, usually against AS 2885. These are remote jobs, often with camp accommodation and limited signal.

Coal country. The Bowen Basin coal mines around Moranbah, Dysart, Emerald and Blackwater, and the coal terminals at Hay Point, Dalrymple Bay and Abbot Point, generate structural, weld and wear inspection on draglines, shovels, conveyors, stackers and ship loaders, plus fixed plant in preparation plants. Mackay is the service hub; see the Mackay ERP page.

The north and north-west. Mount Isa and the North West Minerals Province carry mining and smelting plant, and Townsville hosts a zinc refinery, a copper refinery and a port that handles minerals from the region. Distances are long, so travel and standby days make up a real share of each job.

Brisbane and the south-east. The Lytton refinery on the Brisbane River, the Port of Brisbane, power stations, water infrastructure, and a large base of fabrication and engineering workshops that build vessels, skids and structural steel for projects across the state. Many Queensland NDT companies keep their head office, store and calibration room here; see NDT ERP in Brisbane.

Certificates and records Queensland clients ask NDT vendors for

Direct answer: Queensland clients usually ask for AINDT certification under ISO 9712, current radiation use licences, NATA-traceable calibration, approved procedures to the relevant Australian standard, inductions and medicals, and reports in their own template. US-designed equipment packages and some operators' contractor rules add ASNT-based employer certification to the list.

What turns up in prequalification questionnaires and on gate-check lists:

• Technician certification by method and level, most often AINDT certification. Where a project works to ASME or API codes, or the contractor's own quality system is built on SNT-TC-1A or CP-189, the client may want to see the employer's written practice and the technician's certification under it.
• Radiation licences. Radiation Health Queensland, part of Queensland Health, licenses radiation users and possession of radiation sources under the Radiation Safety Act 1999, including industrial radiography use and possession licences.
• Calibration evidence for every instrument on site, usually from a NATA-accredited laboratory.
• Procedures and technique sheets referencing AS 3978, AS/NZS 1554, AS 2885 or ASME Section V, approved at Level 3 and revision-controlled.
• Site requirements such as coal mine or petroleum and gas site inductions, medicals, fitness for work, and the principal's contractor management platform.
• Reports in the operator's format, reviewed and signed off on time for the shutdown or construction schedule.

Two state regulators matter most for plant. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland handles plant design and item registration under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011, which covers many pressure vessels. Resources Safety and Health Queensland regulates mines and the petroleum and gas sector, including the pressure equipment rules that apply on gas sites. AS/NZS 3788 is the usual reference for in-service inspection of pressure equipment, and the plant owner and its registered inspectors run that programme; your NDT results feed it.

How the Atlantis ERP fits a Queensland NDT company

Direct answer: The Atlantis ERP joins up the records Queensland clients ask for with the jobs they pay for. Certificates, calibration, procedures, dispatch, field reports, timesheets, quotes and invoices share one database, so a coordinator can build a compliant crew for Gladstone or a pipeline spread without opening five files.

See the Atlantis ERP overview and the individual ERP apps for screenshots and module detail.

Tracking AINDT and ASNT certificates in one register

Direct answer: Every certificate a technician holds is its own record with scheme, level, method, sector, certifying body, dates, hours and attachments. AINDT certificates sit under the ISO 9712 scheme with AINDT as certifying body; employer certifications sit under SNT-TC-1A or CP-189. Status updates automatically and warnings start 90 days out.

Queensland technicians move between employers and projects more than most. A Level 2 radiographer might work a pipeline spread under AINDT certification, then a fabrication job for a US equipment supplier that asks for employer certification under an ASNT-based written practice. Keeping both certificates as separate records, each with its own expiry and attachment, removes the guesswork when a client asks for evidence.

• Schemes: SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP or other.
• Levels: trainee, I, II and III.
• Detail: method, certifying body, issue, expiry and renewal dates, industry sector, OJT hours, training hours, exam passed and attached certificate copies.
• Vision tests: near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception and contrast, examiner, clinic, file and expiry.
• Exams: general, specific and practical scores against a passing score that defaults to 70 percent and can be changed, for companies that qualify technicians under their own written practice.

Certificate templates per scheme hold validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is required, and minimum OJT and training hours. Daily checks raise warning tasks 90 days before certificate or vision-test expiry, and configurable email alerts can go to the operations manager, the Level 3 and the technician. Radiation safety training and the radiation badge number are part of each employee's NDT profile, and copies of radiation use licences can be attached. Timesheets warn when a certificate is not valid, so an invalid day cannot slip quietly into a bill.

If your company qualifies technicians under an ASNT-based written practice, Atlantis can also help with written practice development and SNT-TC-1A training. Atlantis does not train toward AINDT certification.

Instruments, calibration and the Brisbane store

Direct answer: Every instrument, probe, gauge, crawler, source container and accessory is tracked by serial number with lifecycle state, assigned person, condition and calibration status. Calibration records hold the provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, result and next due date, and the certificate register raises expiry alerts.

Most Queensland companies run one main store, usually in Brisbane, Gladstone or Mackay, and send kit out on utes or freight. The ERP's issue and return workflow records who took which serial number, with supervisor and manager approval and the condition at issue and return. Reservations stop two coordinators promising the same PAUT set to two jobs, and inbound and outbound movements give a trail if something goes missing on a long job.

• Lifecycle states: new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired and disposed, with rental rates recordable for hired-in or hired-out kit.
• Maintenance log for preventive and corrective work, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement, with condition before and after.
• Consumables such as couplant, penetrant, developer, magnetic particle ink, film and PPE, with reorder levels and low-stock flags.
• Purchase records with vendor types (OEM, dealer, calibration lab), accredited-lab flag, accreditation number and expiry.
• Fleet records that mark which vehicles can carry radioactive sources, with transport licence number and expiry, and assignment to a project or driver.

Company certifications, such as NATA accreditation, ISO 9001 certification and radiation possession licences, can be held as company certification records with their own alert days.

Field reports from gas fields, mines and camps

Direct answer: Technicians write reports in the offline field app, which keeps drafts and photos on the device and syncs when the camp or the ute gets a connection. Reports then go through review and approval with signatures, and the approved PDF goes to the client.

The ERP covers 17 report types, each with its own numbering: UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, IRIS, PAUT, MFL, TOFD, PWHT, PMI, hardness, UT thickness, ferrite, holiday and coating, and computed radiography. Weld and job lines record defect type and orientation, and every report captures the work order, request, WPS, contract, drawing numbers and procedure and standard references, plus an overall result of acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks. Inspector, reviewer and approver signatures sit on the report, along with the client's third-party or authorised inspector name and signature when they witness.

For coating-heavy pipeline work the holiday and coating report type is useful; for the alumina and power plants, UT thickness readings by direction and IRIS reports for heat exchanger tubes cover most routine scopes. For the reporting product on its own, see Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Quotes, timesheets and invoices for Queensland jobs

Direct answer: Quotes carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, with NDT service lines flagged by method. Accepted quotes become orders, timesheets record billable work, travel and standby, and invoices show labour, equipment and consumables subtotals with cost centres and the client's PO.

Queensland work is often priced with mobilisation, daily rates, travel allowances and standby, and these are the lines most often missed. Timesheet work types (inspection, travel, standby, setup), method, site, client, equipment serial, billable flag and rate multiplier all flow to billing. Invoice lines can carry cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours, so a Gladstone client can check the invoice against its own records. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, outstanding invoices, bills and expenses over twelve months. The CRM tracks leads by service line, industry sector and estimated technicians and days, which helps when bidding shutdown packages.

Ask to see a Queensland quote-to-invoice walkthrough.

Regulators, tax and data questions in Queensland

Direct answer: The ERP keeps the records Queensland regulators and clients ask about, but your company stays responsible for compliance. GST, BAS reporting and Peppol e-invoicing are configured during implementation, and hosting location and data residency are discussed during scoping.

• Radiation Health Queensland: radiation use and possession licences under the Radiation Safety Act 1999.
• Workplace Health and Safety Queensland: work health and safety and registration of plant designs and items under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011.
• Resources Safety and Health Queensland: safety on mines, quarries and petroleum and gas sites.
• NATA: accreditation of labs and inspection bodies to ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO/IEC 17020.

For companies holding or seeking NATA accreditation, the controlled procedure register, technician competence records, calibration register with accreditation numbers, and NCR and CAPA workflows set up during implementation make audits easier to prepare for. The ERP does not grant accreditation or replace your quality manual.

Implementation in 2 to 4 weeks, remotely

Direct answer: A typical Queensland implementation takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, depending on how clean your existing records are. It is run remotely during Brisbane business hours, starting with technicians, certificates, equipment and calibration data, then report templates and billing.

1. Scoping: methods, schemes, clients, report formats, billing model, apps needed, integrations and hosting questions.
2. Data import: technicians, certificates, vision tests, equipment, calibration records, consumables, clients and price lists.
3. Templates: client report templates, quotation and invoice layouts with your branding.
4. Workflows and alerts: report and procedure approvals, equipment issue approvals, alert recipients and look-ahead days.
5. Training and go-live for office, dispatch and field staff.

Queensland does not use daylight saving, so session times stay steady through the year.

Integrations with client and accounting systems

Direct answer: 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.

LNG operators, miners and utilities in Queensland commonly use SAP or Maximo. For an NDT contractor the useful link is usually work-order and PO numbers in, and report references and status out. The field app's own API covers jobs assigned to the technician, issued equipment, report submission and sync.

Comparing NDT software options in Queensland

Direct answer: Judge each option on mixed AINDT and ASNT certificates, calibration control at dispatch, remote and offline reporting, and whether quoting and invoicing understand NDT jobs. Spreadsheets fail on scale, generic ERPs need heavy setup, and NDT-specific systems differ in whether they suit laboratories or field crews.

Australian buyers will also look at OMS, a local system built around accredited laboratories and inspection bodies, and at NDT-specific systems such as SPA Innovision's InspectO. Both are worth a demo. Ask each vendor the same questions: how field crews are dispatched, how ASNT and AINDT certificates sit together, what works offline, and how a remote job is billed. More detail is in our NDT ERP software comparison.

Queensland city pages

Direct answer: The ERP is delivered online across Queensland. City pages cover local context for Brisbane, Gladstone and Mackay.

• NDT ERP in Brisbane: head offices, stores, fabrication and the Lytton refinery.
• NDT ERP in Gladstone: LNG, alumina, aluminium and power.
• NDT ERP in Mackay: Bowen Basin mining and coal ports.

See also NDT ERP in Australia. Atlantis has no office in Queensland; demos, implementation and support are online.

Frequently asked questions

Is there NDT ERP software built for Queensland inspection companies?

The Atlantis ERP is built for NDT companies and configured for each customer, including Queensland certificate schemes, client report formats and Australian tax settings.

Can it record AINDT certification?

Yes. AINDT certificates are recorded under the ISO 9712 scheme with AINDT as certifying body, with automatic status and 90-day warnings.

Can a technician have both AINDT and ASNT records?

Yes. Each certificate is a separate record, so AINDT, SNT-TC-1A, CP-189 and other certificates sit side by side for the same person.

Does it work offline on gas fields and mine sites?

Yes. The installable field app stores drafts and photos on the device and syncs when there is a connection.

Can it stop out-of-calibration equipment being sent to site?

Team assignments warn when assigned equipment is out of calibration, and the calibration register shows valid, expiring and expired certificates with alerts.

Does it support radiography crews?

Yes. RT and computed radiography report types, radiation safety training and badge numbers on employee profiles, attached licence copies, and fleet records for vehicles that can carry sources.

How long does implementation take in Queensland?

Typically 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff, delivered remotely; it depends on how clean your existing records are.

Does it handle GST and Peppol e-invoicing?

GST, BAS reporting and Peppol e-invoicing are configured during implementation.

Where is our data stored?

Hosting location and data residency are discussed during scoping.

Can it integrate with an operator's SAP or Maximo?

Yes, through the open REST API, scoped per implementation.

Does it plan AS/NZS 3788 in-service inspections?

No. It runs the NDT company. In-service inspection planning stays with the plant owner and its inspectors; your reports feed that programme.

What does it cost?

Quote on request, based on the apps, users and integrations you need. Affordable. Accessible. Fully customizable.

Book a Queensland NDT ERP demo

Tell us about your technicians, certificate schemes, clients, sites and report formats, and we will show the Atlantis ERP running that workload and send a written quote. Book a demo for your Queensland NDT company, get a quote, or ask about migrating your certificate and equipment records. For Level III procedure or audit help, see NDT consulting.

More Atlantis NDT services in Queensland

• Level III consulting in Queensland
• Practical NDT simulator in Queensland