Affordable NDT ERP in St. Louis — Fully Customizable, Every Business App You Need Included

NDT software in St. Louis: a two-state market on the rivers

St. Louis NDT work spreads across both sides of the Mississippi, and that shapes everything from licensing to invoicing. On the Missouri side, Boeing's defence operations build fighter, trainer and unmanned aircraft, supported by a network of machine shops, fabricators and component suppliers that need aerospace-grade inspection. Ameren's generating fleet, including the Labadie Energy Center west of the city and the Callaway nuclear plant in mid-Missouri, drives outage work on boilers, piping and pressure equipment. On the Illinois side, the Metro East holds the Phillips 66 Wood River refinery at Roxana, the steel works at Granite City, and chemical plants and terminals around Sauget and along the river. Barge fleeting, terminals and river transport add marine and tank work up and down the Mississippi and Illinois rivers.

The regulatory split is real. Missouri is not an Agreement State, so radioactive materials licences for radiography there come from the NRC through its Region III office. Illinois is an Agreement State, and its programme is run by the state's emergency management and radiation safety agency. Boilers and pressure vessels are handled by the Missouri Division of Fire Safety on one side and the Illinois Office of the State Fire Marshal on the other. A St. Louis contractor crossing the Poplar Street Bridge in the morning can be working under a different set of rules by lunch.

The Atlantis ERP solution helps a St. Louis NDT company keep people, sources, instruments and paperwork straight across that line.

ERP for NDT companies in St. Louis: the short answer

An ERP for NDT companies in St. Louis has to keep track of qualifications, instruments and job records across two states and very different industries: aerospace, power, refining, steel, chemicals and marine. The Atlantis ERP brings certifications, calibration, dispatch, reports, procedures, quotes and invoices into one system, configured for your company by an ASNT NDT Level III.

For a St. Louis contractor, the practical gain is that every job carries its own context. The project record holds the client PO, contract, methods, codes, scope, acceptance criteria, assigned technicians and equipment, plus the safety induction and work permit fields your client expects. Reports reference the procedure and standard used. Timesheets record where the work happened. When an auditor from a power utility, a refinery or an aerospace prime asks for the paper trail, it is already linked.

For small NDT companies in St. Louis, it also replaces the owner's memory as the only record of who is qualified for what.

Technician certification tracking for aerospace, power and plant crews

Technician certification tracking in St. Louis has to cover aerospace suppliers, utilities and refineries, and each audits differently. The Certificates app records scheme (SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP or other), level, method, certifying body, industry sector, issue, expiry and renewal dates, OJT and training hours, exam results and attachments. Aerospace and client-specific qualifications are recorded under the other scheme with their own sector.

Status is automatic: active, expiring soon (90 days), expired or revoked. Vision tests are held separately, with near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception, contrast, examiner, clinic and expiry. Examination sheets store general, specific and practical scores against a configurable passing score. Certificate templates per scheme set validity, whether a vision test or exam is required, and minimum OJT and training hours, so your written practice rules are applied the same way to every technician.

Daily checks create warning tasks 90 days before a cert or vision test expires. Configurable daily email alerts cover technician certs, calibration certificates and company certifications. Timesheets warn if a technician's certificate is not valid. Company certifications, such as ISO 9001 or client approvals, carry their own alert days, so supplier renewals for aerospace primes and utilities do not slip.

Radiography crews working in Missouri and Illinois

Radiography is where the two-state split bites hardest. The ERP does not manage your radioactive materials licence, but it does keep the people and vehicle records a radiation safety officer relies on in one place. Each technician's NDT profile holds radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry, next to their RT certifications and vision tests.

The Fleet app records each vehicle's purpose, whether it can carry radioactive sources, its transport licence number and expiry, and its assignment to a project and driver with dates and mileage. Projects carry site and safety induction fields, so a crew heading to a Metro East refinery and a crew heading to a Missouri power plant each have the right job context. RT reports record source, technique, IQI type and placement, and computed radiography has its own report type for crews that have moved off film.

How you split operations between Missouri and Illinois, for example separate cost centres or separate project types, is configured during implementation to match how your licences and billing are set up.

NDT reporting software, including marine mode for river work

NDT reporting software in St. Louis has to produce aerospace, power, refinery and marine reports from one system. The Atlantis ERP includes 17 report types: UT, RT, MT, PT, VT, ECT, IRIS, PAUT, MFL, TOFD, PWHT, PMI, hardness, UT thickness, ferrite, holiday/coating and computed radiography. Each has its own numbering sequence.

For power plant outages, UT thickness reports record readings by direction, and PAUT, TOFD, RT and MT reports cover boiler and piping welds. PWHT and hardness reports close out repairs. At the Wood River refinery and Metro East chemical plants, IRIS and ECT cover exchanger tubes, PMI confirms alloy, and MFL records scan mode and item lines for tank floors. For aerospace suppliers, PT, MT, ECT and UT reports carry the method detail, and weld and job lines record defect type and orientation. Each report ends with acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks.

Marine mode suits river and terminal work. It adds a vessel cover page and photo, inspection location and dates. Where a vessel is classed, the PDF merges the classification society certificate (DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS or ClassNK library), the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate, with inspection photos in a 2-up grid.

Reports move from draft through review and approval to sent, with inspector, reviewer, approver and third-party signatures. The offline field app handles work inside plants and on the water where signal is poor. More at Digital Twin Reporting Software and the NDT Reports app.

Calibration management software for St. Louis instrument fleets

Calibration management software needs to give aerospace auditors and utility QA teams the same clear answer: the instrument was calibrated, by an accredited lab, and here is the certificate. The Asset Management app tracks each instrument, probe and accessory by serial number, with type, assigned person, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories and lifecycle status (new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired, disposed).

Calibration records hold provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, result and next due date. The certificate register stores the lab's accreditation number and PDF, with valid, expiring or expired status and expiry alerts. In Purchase, calibration labs are a vendor type with accreditation number and expiry, and order lines link to the specific equipment serial being sent out.

The issue and return workflow, with supervisor and manager approval, records condition both ways. Reservations with clash prevention protect kit booked for an outage. The maintenance log covers preventive and corrective work, repair, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement. Consumables carry reorder levels and a low-stock flag.

Crew dispatch software for outages, Metro East plants and aerospace suppliers

Crew dispatch software in St. Louis has to handle outage season at the utilities, refinery and plant work across the river, and steady aerospace shop visits. The Team Assignments app moves each job through planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with site GPS coordinates and mobilisation and demobilisation dates.

The technician availability calendar shows assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable days and blocks overlaps. Double-booking of technicians and of instrument serial numbers is blocked, and the dispatcher is warned when assigned equipment is out of calibration. Utilisation percentage and next available date for each technician show in calendar, kanban and list views. Time Off feeds availability, so spring and fall outage planning uses real numbers.

Procedures and document control

Aerospace primes, utilities and refineries all review procedures, and nuclear-adjacent work is especially strict about document control. The Procedures app keeps a register with document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard (for example ASME Section V), acceptance criteria and body text or file.

Procedures move through draft, submitted, reviewed, approved and published, with rejected (with a reason) and archived states. Approved revisions lock and each revision keeps a snapshot. An AI-assisted first draft gives your Level III a starting point, and they still review and approve. Approvers get email notifications and reminders.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for St. Louis contractors

NDT quoting and invoicing software should bill each job cleanly, whichever side of the river it was on. Quotations carry job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, with NDT service products flagged by method and category, a global discount and a branded PDF. Clients can accept and sign online, and the quote converts to a sales order.

Invoices carry project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals. Lines hold cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours. Taxes for each state are configured during implementation. Timesheets record inspection, travel, standby and setup as separate work types with billable flag and rate multiplier, and outage night shifts and standby are recorded as they happen. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA and outstanding invoices over 12 months.

Inspection management software in St. Louis: dashboards, CRM and integrations

NDT KPI dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certs expiring and expired, and issued equipment overdue for return. The CRM records service line, NDT service type, industry sector, site country and estimated technicians and days, with a lead score from 0 to 100 and drip sequences by service line. Aerospace, power, refinery and marine prospects each get the right follow-up.

The Atlantis ERP has an open REST API and integrates with SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections. Utilities and large manufacturers in the region commonly run enterprise systems, and the scope of each integration is agreed during implementation.

Affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in St. Louis: implementation

An affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in St. Louis is set up around your written practice, your clients and the way you split Missouri and Illinois work. It is quoted on request and implemented by Atlantis NDT.

1. Discovery. We cover your written practice, report formats, client mix, bi-state structure and billing.
2. Data load. We import technicians, certifications, vision tests, radiation profile fields, instruments, calibration certificates, vehicles, procedures and clients.
3. Templates. We build report templates per client type, including marine mode where you need it, plus branded quotations and invoices.
4. Field rollout. Crews use the offline app on live jobs while the office runs dispatch and approvals.
5. Integrations and training. We scope the API connections and train office staff and your Level III.

Atlantis also offers SNT-TC-1A-based NDT training through the eLearning portal and the Practical NDT 3D simulator. Book a demo set up for a St. Louis NDT company.

Spreadsheets vs generic ERP vs Atlantis ERP in St. Louis

Talk to an NDT Level III about your St. Louis operation

Atlantis NDT was founded by Anoop Rayavarapu, an ASNT NDT Level III. If your St. Louis company is juggling aerospace suppliers, utility outages, Metro East plants and river work, we can walk through the ERP using your own crew, instruments and report formats.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for a St. Louis company working in Missouri and Illinois?

Choose software that keeps technician, radiation profile, vehicle and job records together, so work on either side of the river is documented the same way. The Atlantis ERP does this, and your bi-state structure is configured during implementation.

Does the ERP manage our radioactive materials licence?

No. It records the people and vehicle details your radiation safety programme relies on: radiation safety training, badge number, medical fitness, and source-capable vehicles with transport licence number and expiry. The licence itself stays with your RSO and regulator.

Can it produce marine inspection reports for barges and terminals?

Yes. Marine mode adds a vessel cover page and photo, and the PDF merges the classification society certificate, the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate, with photos in a 2-up grid.

Is the Atlantis ERP affordable for small NDT companies in St. Louis?

Yes. It is positioned as affordable, accessible and fully customizable, and it is quoted on request based on team size and apps. Request a quote.

Does it track aerospace supplier qualifications?

Yes. Aerospace and client-specific qualifications are recorded under the other scheme with level, method, sector, dates and attachments, and company certifications carry their own renewal alerts.

Can it connect to QuickBooks or a client's SAP system?

Yes. The open REST API supports integrations with QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Maximo or any system that accepts API connections, scoped during implementation.