Affordable NDT ERP in Vancouver — Fully Customizable, Every Business App You Need Included

NDT software in Vancouver: port, marine and LNG-ready

An NDT company in Vancouver needs software that handles ship and port work, long-distance mobilisations to northern BC projects, and a crew certification matrix spread across several schemes. The Atlantis ERP solution is a fully customized ERP for NDT and inspection companies. It covers reports, technician certificates, equipment calibration, crew dispatch, quoting and invoicing, and it is set up and supported by Atlantis NDT, whose founder is an ASNT NDT Level III.

Vancouver's inspection market centres on the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest port. That brings bulk terminals, container cranes, grain and potash facilities, and the ships themselves. Seaspan's shipyards in North Vancouver and Victoria build and repair vessels, which means weld inspection and classification-society work. The Trans Mountain expansion's Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, the Burnaby refinery, pulp and paper mills along the coast and up the Fraser, and hydro assets across the province add industrial work. Further out, LNG Canada at Kitimat and Woodfibre LNG near Squamish have made LNG and pipeline construction a real market for Lower Mainland NDT contractors, with crews rotating in and out for weeks at a time.

That means a Vancouver NDT company's week can include MT on crane structures at a terminal, UT thickness on a hull for a class survey, PAUT on pipeline welds and PT on stainless piping, often in different places at once. Below, each Atlantis ERP app is applied to that West Coast pattern.

ERP for NDT companies in Vancouver: the core apps

An ERP for NDT companies in Vancouver needs to connect marine reporting, remote dispatch, certification control and billing in one system. The Atlantis ERP does this with apps built for inspection work.

• NDT Reports: 17 report types, including UT thickness, PAUT, TOFD, RT, computed radiography, MT, PT, VT, MFL and holiday/coating, plus a marine mode for vessel work.
• Team Assignments: dispatch workflow, mobilisation and demobilisation dates, availability calendar and double-booking prevention.
• Certificates: every technician certificate, vision test and exam sheet, with automatic status and alerts.
• Asset Management: instruments and probes by serial number, calibration register, issue/return approval, and rental records.
• Fleet: vehicles, radioactive source transport licences and assignments.
• Quotations and Invoicing: NDT-aware quotes and invoices with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals.

Project, Timesheets, CRM, Purchase, Inventory, Expenses and Dashboards complete the set. Full list at /erp/apps.

NDT reporting software for marine and port inspection

NDT reporting software for Vancouver marine work has to produce the package a surveyor or ship manager expects, not just a thickness table. The Atlantis NDT Reports app has a marine mode for exactly this.

• Vessel cover page. Vessel name, photo, inspection location and dates on the cover.
• Merged certificates. The PDF merges in the classification-society certificate (from a library including DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS and ClassNK), the inspector's Level II certificate and the calibration certificate. The surveyor gets one document instead of three email attachments.
• Photos. Inspection photos laid out in a 2-up grid.
• Readings. UT thickness readings recorded by direction for hull plating, decks, tanks and structural members.

For port and terminal structures, MT reports record technique and particle type on crane welds and ship loader booms, and UT reports include the probe calibration table. Weld and job lines carry defect type and orientation, and every report ends with an overall result of acceptable, not acceptable or acceptable with remarks. Holiday/coating reports cover linings on tanks and pipe.

Every report moves through draft, in progress, review, approved and sent, with inspector, reviewer and approver signatures, plus a field for a third-party or authorized inspector. Work order, request, WPS, contract, drawing, procedure and standard references are captured. Company templates are versioned in Excel, Word, PDF or HTML. The offline field app works below deck and on terminals where signal is patchy, and syncs later. Owners who want results on a 3D model can use Atlantis Digital Twins.

Crew dispatch software for LNG, pipeline and remote BC work

Crew dispatch software for a Vancouver NDT company has to plan multi-week rotations to northern and coastal projects while keeping the Lower Mainland covered. Team Assignments moves each job through planned, dispatched, in field, submitted and closed, with calendar, kanban and list views.

Each assignment records the site's GPS coordinates and the mobilisation and demobilisation dates. A technician rotating to Kitimat for three weeks therefore shows as assigned for the whole rotation, including travel days, and can't be booked on a port job in the meantime. The availability calendar covers assigned, leave, training, sick and unavailable, blocks overlaps, and pulls in approved Time Off, so days off between rotations are protected.

The planner sees each technician's status, current assignment, utilisation and next available date, which makes it easier to plan the next rotation before the current one ends. Equipment follows the same rules. A PAUT unit going north for a month cannot be double-booked onto a Burnaby job, and if it is out of calibration the planner is warned before it is shipped. That matters when the next calibration opportunity is two provinces away.

Project records hold the safety induction and work permit fields that LNG, pipeline and terminal sites require. The Fleet app assigns trucks to projects and drivers with dates and mileage, and records whether a vehicle can carry radioactive sources, with transport licence number and expiry. Expenses captures camp, travel and per diem costs and re-bills them to the job.

Technician certification tracking for BC crews

Technician certification tracking software in Vancouver needs to show which technicians meet each client's requirement: Canadian, US, marine or pipeline. The Atlantis Certificates app records scheme, level, method, certifying body, issue, expiry and renewal dates, industry sector, OJT and training hours, exam results and attachments, and computes active, expiring soon, expired or revoked automatically.

In BC, CAN/CGSB-48.9712 (ISO 9712) certification from NRCan's NDT Certification Body or CWB Group is the usual requirement for Canadian industrial, pipeline and LNG work, and it is a built-in scheme. Contractors who also work in Washington State or for US operators add SNT-TC-1A employer certification. Technicians who have worked internationally often carry PCN or CSWIP certificates too, which marine and offshore clients sometimes recognise. All of these sit together on the same technician, per method and level.

• The employee NDT profile records radiation safety training, radiation badge number and medical fitness expiry. CNSC exposure device operator certification for radiographers can be attached.
• Vision tests cover near vision (Jaeger J1/J2), far vision, colour perception and contrast, with examiner, clinic and expiry.
• Daily checks create warning tasks 90 days before expiry, and configurable email alerts go out. This is useful when a technician's cert is due while they are on a remote rotation.
• Timesheets warn if time is booked by a technician whose certificate is not valid.

Atlantis delivers NDT training based on ASNT SNT-TC-1A only. The ERP records ISO 9712, PCN and CSWIP certificates, but Atlantis does not deliver training for them.

Calibration management software for Vancouver equipment

Calibration management software for a Vancouver NDT company needs to track kit that moves between the shop, ships, terminals and remote camps. In Asset Management, every flaw detector, thickness gauge, PAUT unit, probe, yoke, crawler and holiday detector is tracked by serial number, with assigned person, condition, asset tag, firmware, accessories and lifecycle status: new, active, in calibration, in repair, rented out, retired or disposed.

Calibration records store provider, certificate number, standard, range, uncertainty, accredited-lab flag, result and next due date. The certificate register holds the lab's accreditation number and PDF, with valid, expiring and expired status and email alerts. That calibration certificate is the same one marine mode merges into the vessel report PDF, so the surveyor sees it without anyone having to hunt for it.

Issue and return run through supervisor and manager approval, and condition is recorded at both ends. That is useful when kit comes back from a wet, salty terminal job. Reservations stop clashes, and inbound and outbound movements are logged, so you know which gauge went north in a crate. The maintenance log covers preventive and corrective work, cleaning, firmware updates and probe replacement, with condition before and after. Rental rates can be recorded for equipment you hire out. Consumables such as couplant, MT ink, penetrant kits and PPE have reorder levels and low-stock flags. Purchase tracks OEMs, dealers and calibration labs, accreditation numbers and expiry, and links purchase lines to specific serials.

Procedures and the BC regulatory context

Vancouver clients, including port operators, shipyards, LNG owners and pipeline companies, will review your procedures before approving you as a vendor. The Procedures app keeps a controlled register: document number, revision, method, scope, material, applicable standard (such as ASME Section V or the relevant CSA or class rules), acceptance criteria, and body text or uploaded file.

Procedures move from draft to submitted, reviewed, approved and published, and can be rejected with a reason or archived. Prepared, reviewed and approved by are recorded with dates, approved revisions are locked, and each revision keeps a snapshot. Approvers get email notifications and reminders, which helps when your Level III is on a rotation up north. The AI-assisted first draft, with a built-in template as fallback, gives your Level III a starting point for a new procedure, which the Level III then reviews and approves.

NCR and CAPA workflows can be configured during implementation. Company certifications such as ISO 9001 are stored with their own alert days. For context, boilers, pressure vessels and pressure piping in BC fall under Technical Safety BC, and radiography sources under the CNSC. Pipeline and LNG facilities also sit within the BC Energy Regulator's framework. The ERP keeps your records organised for those regimes but does not replace them, and it does not calculate inspection intervals or corrosion rates.

NDT quoting and invoicing software for Vancouver clients

NDT quoting and invoicing software for Vancouver has to cover short port jobs, ship repair work that changes by the hour, and long LNG rotations. Quotations record job type, site, project dates and applicable codes, apply a global discount, and use NDT service products flagged by method and category. Clients get a branded PDF, can accept and sign online, and the quote converts to a sales order.

Invoicing carries the NDT project, job or PO number, site, invoice type and industry sector, with labour, equipment and consumables subtotals. Lines can show cost centre, method, equipment serial, technician, rate type and days or hours. Ship repair jobs, where the scope grows as the surveyor finds more, are billed accurately from approved timesheets rather than estimates.

Timesheets separate inspection, travel, standby and setup, with a billable flag, rate multiplier, site, client and equipment serial, and supervisor approval. Weather standby at a terminal and travel days to Kitimat get billed rather than written off. GST and PST are configured for BC during implementation. The financial dashboard shows revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA and outstanding invoices across twelve months, so you can compare port, marine and LNG work.

Inspection management software in Vancouver: CRM and dashboards

Inspection management software in Vancouver should also help you win work from shipowners, terminals and major projects. The CRM records service line, lead source, NDT service type, industry sector, site country, and estimated technicians and days, and scores leads from 0 to 100 as hot, warm, nurture or cold.

Import ship managers or terminal operators from CSV, preview AI-personalised emails and enrol contacts in drip sequences by service line. AI Marketing drafts newsletters and announcements using a model that can run on your own server. Business Cards reads a card photographed at a marine or energy event and creates a lead in one click. Website enquiry forms feed the CRM, and Surveys collect client feedback.

Dashboards show calibration due and overdue, certs expiring and expired, and issued equipment overdue next to financial KPIs, so you can see whether kit shipped north is back on time. The open REST API connects to SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation.

Implementing the Atlantis ERP in Vancouver

A Vancouver rollout is planned around your rotations and your busiest marine season.

1. Discovery. Your sectors (port, marine, LNG, pipeline, pulp and paper), certification schemes, report formats, class-society requirements and how rotations are planned.
2. Certificates and assets. Technicians, CGSB, SNT-TC-1A, PCN and CSWIP certs, vision tests, instruments and calibration history.
3. Marine templates. Vessel cover pages, class certificate library and your report layouts.
4. Dispatch and fleet. Rotations, mobilisation dates, vehicles and source-transport licences.
5. Reports, timesheets and billing. Crews move to the offline app, and accounts go live with GST and PST configured.
6. Support. Atlantis NDT stays involved as you add apps.

For in-house training, eLearning hosts Level I to III course sections, protected video lessons, quizzes and completion certificates, and the Practical NDT 3D simulator provides hands-on practice. Book a Vancouver ERP demo and we'll show marine mode with one of your own vessel reports.

Affordable customizable ERP for inspection companies in Vancouver

Affordable, customizable ERP for inspection companies in Vancouver means an NDT-specific system configured for marine, port and project work, with the scope you choose. Pricing is quote on request.

Small NDT companies in Vancouver often start with NDT Reports in marine mode, Certificates and Asset Management. Request a quote for your Vancouver company.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best NDT software for a Vancouver inspection company?

Look for one system that covers marine-ready reports, certifications, calibration, dispatch for rotations, and billing. The Atlantis ERP does all of this and is configured for port, marine and LNG work.

Does it support class-society reporting?

Marine mode adds a vessel cover page and merges the classification-society certificate (DNV, ABS, Lloyd's Register, BV, RINA, IRS, ClassNK library), the inspector's Level II cert and the calibration certificate into the report PDF.

Can it plan LNG and pipeline rotations?

Yes. Assignments carry mobilisation and demobilisation dates, availability blocks overlaps, and equipment serials cannot be double-booked.

Does the field app work offline?

Yes. It works without signal, stores drafts and photos, and syncs later.

Can it integrate with SAP or Maximo?

Yes. The open REST API connects to SAP, Maximo, NetSuite, QuickBooks or any system that accepts API connections, scoped per implementation.

How much does it cost?

Quote on request, based on apps and configuration. Ask for a Vancouver quote.

Does Atlantis offer NDT training?

Atlantis offers NDT training based on ASNT SNT-TC-1A only. It does not deliver ISO 9712, PCN, CSWIP or API training, but the ERP records those certificates.