Practical guides on running NDT and inspection jobs, tracking assets and certificates, producing reports from Word templates and managing timesheets.
"EH&S software for oil and gas" is not one product. It is at least eight categories, from incident management and permit to work through to mechanical integrity, and most operators run three or four of them. This guide maps the categories, names the tools usually found in each, and shows where inspection and asset integrity records belong.
AMPS is cloud-based job and asset management software for NDT and inspection companies, asset owners and job-driven trades in Australia and New Zealand. It runs quotes, jobs, timesheets, reports and invoices next to asset, equipment and personnel-certificate tracking, and it is built by Skinny Robot LTD in Auckland, New Zealand.
An inspection job passes through six steps: creation, assignment, execution, reporting, time and cost capture, closure and invoicing. Most delays sit between reporting and invoicing, and most errors come from retyping references between systems.
A good Word report template separates job data that changes every time (client, PO, serial numbers, dates) from technical content the technician writes and from controlled text that never changes (procedure clause, acceptance criteria, revision block). That separation is what lets AMPS fill, improve, sign and file the report automatically.
Generic field-service and ERP tools schedule jobs and send invoices well, but they do not track NDT certificates by method and level, trace calibration to reference standards, generate method-specific reports or keep the audit trail an ISO/IEC 17020 assessor expects. Those gaps are why NDT-specific tools exist.
Put every dated document for people and equipment in one register with an owner and a warning window of at least a month, check it when assigning jobs, and keep the evidence where an assessor can follow it from a report back to the certificate.
When people search for NDT software they mean one of four things: software that runs instruments and analyses scan data, integrity systems that asset owners use to manage inspection data, job and asset platforms that NDT contractors run their business on, or generic field-service tools. Most "best NDT software" lists mix them up.