Inspection Management Software for Shreveport

NDT software in Shreveport: pipeline, gas and plant work in the Ark-La-Tex

Shreveport-Bossier City sits on top of the Haynesville Shale, one of the largest natural gas plays in the country, and that shapes almost every NDT company in northwest Louisiana. Gathering lines, compressor stations, treating facilities and large-diameter pipelines built to move Haynesville gas south toward the Gulf Coast LNG export terminals all need weld inspection, and much of it is radiography and automated or phased array UT on girth welds. Around that core sit Calumet's Shreveport refinery and its turnaround work, power generation, fabrication shops building skids, vessels and compressor packages, Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, and industrial customers along the Red River and the Port of Caddo-Bossier.

The typical Shreveport NDT contractor runs radiography and UT crews on pipeline spreads, supports midstream operators with integrity digs and station work, and keeps a shop and plant business going between projects. Crews regularly cross into East Texas and southern Arkansas, so a single company can be working under three states' rules in one month. Context for the paperwork: PHMSA regulations for interstate pipelines, Louisiana's Office of Conservation pipeline safety staff for intrastate lines, the Railroad Commission of Texas across the state line, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, which licenses industrial radiography because Louisiana is an NRC Agreement State.

Pipeline work is volume work. A spread can generate hundreds of weld reports a week, each tied to a technician, a source or X-ray tube, a film or digital technique and an acceptance standard. Paper and spreadsheets break down quickly under that load. The sections below apply each Atlantis ERP module to Shreveport-area work.

ERP for NDT companies in Shreveport: the short answer

An ERP for NDT companies in Shreveport is one system connecting technician certifications, radiation safety records, instruments and calibration, crew dispatch across a wide rural area, weld reports and invoicing. The Atlantis ERP solution is built for NDT and inspection companies, implemented and supported by Atlantis NDT, founded by an ASNT NDT Level III.

The point is that each record checks the others. A timesheet warns when a technician's certificate is not valid. A team assignment warns when assigned equipment is out of calibration and blocks double-booking of technicians and equipment serial numbers. A weld report carries work order, WPS, contract, drawing, procedure and standard references and runs through review and approval before it goes to the client. On a spread moving fast, that is what keeps a crew from shooting a day of welds with a technician whose card lapsed last week.

Technician certification tracking software for pipeline radiographers

Technician certification tracking in the Atlantis ERP records scheme, level, method, certifying body, industry sector, issue, expiry and renewal dates, OJT and training hours, exam results and attachments. Status is computed as active, expiring soon (within 90 days), expired or revoked, and warning tasks and daily email alerts go out before anything lapses.

Radiography crews carry more than an NDT level. The employee NDT profile holds highest level, methods certified, radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry, so the radiographer and assistant pairing for a crew is visible with their dosimetry and training status before dispatch. Pipeline operators also require operator qualification records for covered tasks; these can be recorded as an 'other' scheme with their own dates and attachments, next to SNT-TC-1A or CP-189 certifications.

Vision tests (Jaeger J1/J2 near vision, far vision, colour perception, contrast) are held with examiner, clinic, certificate file and expiry and get the same 90-day warning. Certificate templates per scheme define validity in months, whether a vision test or exam is required and the minimum OJT and training hours, which helps when you are bringing trainees up to Level I and Level II during a busy Haynesville year. Examination sheets record general, specific and practical scores and exam files. See the Certificates app.

Calibration management software for crawlers, cameras and survey meters

Calibration management tracks every instrument and source-related item by serial number: equipment type, assigned person, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories, lifecycle and calibration frequency and status. The calibration certificate register stores provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag and accreditation number, pass/fail/conditional result, PDF and expiry alerts.

For a Shreveport pipeline contractor that list covers survey meters, dosimeter readers, densitometers, X-ray crawlers, UT flaw detectors, PAUT units and thickness gauges, all of which have calibration due dates that do not wait for the spread to finish. Issue and return runs through supervisor and manager approval with condition recorded both ways, and reservations with clash prevention stop two crews from counting on the same crawler. The maintenance log records preventive and corrective maintenance, repairs, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacements with condition before and after, which is useful when red clay and rain on a right-of-way take their toll.

If you rent equipment in or out, rental rates can be recorded against each item and the lifecycle status shows 'rented out'. Consumables such as film-processing chemicals where still used, penetrant, MT products, couplant and PPE carry reorder levels, low-stock flags and a movement ledger. See the Asset Management app.

Crew dispatch and scheduling software across Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas

Crew dispatch runs through Team Assignments: planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates and mobilisation and demobilisation dates. Technicians and equipment serial numbers cannot be double-booked, and out-of-calibration equipment triggers a warning.

Haynesville sites are spread across DeSoto, Caddo, Bossier, Red River and Sabine parishes and into East Texas, often on lease roads with no street address. GPS coordinates on the assignment get the crew to the right pad or station. The availability calendar holds assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable periods with overlaps blocked, and each technician shows current assignment, utilisation and next available date, so a dispatcher can see who is free for a tie-in crew next week without phoning around. Calendar, kanban and list views give the office and the field the same picture.

Radiography adds vehicle rules. The Fleet app records which trucks can carry radioactive sources, their transport licence number and expiry, and assignments to projects and drivers with dates and mileage. Timesheets separate inspection, travel, standby and setup, which matters when a crew drives two hours each way or waits on a welding crew. Project records carry safety induction and work permit fields, useful when each operator runs its own orientation. See Team Assignments and Fleet.

NDT reporting software for girth welds, stations and turnarounds

The NDT Reports module covers 17 report types including RT, computed radiography, UT, PAUT, TOFD, MT, PT, VT, UT thickness, PMI, hardness and holiday/coating, each with its own numbering sequence. Reports move through draft, in progress, review, approved and sent with inspector, reviewer, approver and third-party inspector signatures.

Pipeline radiography reports need the details right: RT source, technique, IQI type and placement, with weld lines recording defect type and orientation and an overall result of acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks. PAUT reports record focal laws, and UT reports carry a probe calibration table. Holiday testing reports cover coating inspection on new pipe. For Calumet turnarounds and plant work, UT thickness readings by direction, PMI and hardness reports cover the usual scope.

The offline field app is the piece Shreveport crews rely on. Cell coverage on rural right-of-way is patchy, and the app stores drafts and photos locally, captures an on-screen signature and syncs when the truck gets back into coverage. Operators that require their own report layout are handled with versioned Excel, Word, PDF or HTML templates, and Excel templates fill automatically by mapping fields to cells. See NDT Reports and Digital Twin Reporting Software.

Procedure control for Shreveport contractors

The procedure register records document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard, acceptance criteria and body text or file, with a draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published workflow, locked approved revisions and a snapshot of every revision.

Pipeline operators, refinery owners and fabrication clients each audit procedures differently, and many expect a technique sheet per job. Keeping the RT, UT and PAUT procedures in one register with revision history means you can show which revision applied on a given spread date. The AI-assisted first draft gives a Level III a starting point for a new procedure, but the Level III still reviews and approves it, and approvers get email reminders for pending approvals. See Procedures.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for spreads and shop work

Quotes carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, NDT service products by method and category, a global discount, a branded PDF and online acceptance that converts to a sales order. Invoices hold the NDT project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals.

Pipeline billing is usually day-rate crews plus equipment and per-weld or per-shot items, with standby and travel negotiated separately. Invoice lines carry cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours, and approved timesheets with billable flags and rate multipliers feed the invoice so overtime and weekend work are not missed. Field expenses and per diems recorded in Expenses can be re-billed to the job. Louisiana state and parish sales taxes, and Texas or Arkansas taxes for cross-border jobs, are configured during implementation. The financial dashboard shows revenue, gross margin, EBITDA and outstanding invoices over 12 months. See Quotations and Invoicing.

Affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in Shreveport

The Atlantis ERP is affordable, accessible and fully customizable, with a quote on request. Many northwest Louisiana contractors start with certificates, radiation records, equipment, dispatch and reporting, then add invoicing and CRM once the field side is running.

Gas-driven work comes in waves, and the CRM helps you track it: leads carry service line, NDT service type, industry sector and estimated technicians and days, with an NDT lead score from 0 to 100. The open REST API connects to QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Maximo or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation. Atlantis provides ASNT SNT-TC-1A-based NDT training and an eLearning portal for bringing new hires along; see Practical NDT. Book a demo using a pipeline job as the example.

Implementing the Atlantis ERP in Shreveport

1. Discovery: map methods, operators, report formats, rate structures and how crews are dispatched today.
2. Data load: technicians, certifications, operator qualification records, vision tests, radiation badge data, instruments and calibration certificates imported.
3. Templates: RT, UT and PAUT report layouts and operator-specific formats rebuilt as versioned templates.
4. Field rollout: offline app installed on crew devices and tested on a live spread.
5. Go-live: alerts, approvals, invoicing and dashboards switched on.

Anything not built in is configured during implementation and scoped up front. Ask for an implementation quote.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs the Atlantis ERP for pipeline NDT

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for a pipeline inspection company in Shreveport?

Software that handles high-volume weld reports, radiation safety records, equipment calibration and day-rate invoicing together. The Atlantis ERP does all four in one system.

Can it hold operator qualification records?

Yes, as an 'other' scheme with dates and attachments, alongside SNT-TC-1A or CP-189 certifications.

Does the app work on rural right-of-way with no signal?

Yes. Drafts and photos are stored on the device and sync when coverage returns.

Can we bill crews working in Texas and Arkansas?

Yes. Taxes and invoice settings for each state are configured during implementation.

Does the ERP do pipeline integrity calculations?

No. The ERP manages people, equipment, jobs, reports and billing; it does not perform integrity or remaining-life calculations.

How much does it cost?

Quote on request. Request a Shreveport quote.