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Ceramics, glass and stone · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a refractory and kiln furniture maker
Set up the way a refractory and kiln furniture maker runs: selling refractory bricks, shapes, castables, mortars and kiln furniture by piece, kg or tonne, and relining contracts during customers' shutdowns. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a refractory and kiln furniture maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Shutdown work all lands in the same weeks and jobs are turned away. Relining jobs overrun cost with no tracking.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 10 licences for a refractory and kiln furniture maker, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What changes
The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Where you sit
MatruOS starts from how your business earns
Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.
- clays and alumina minerals
- refractory maker
- kiln and furnace users
Your suppliers
- Fireclay and grog suppliers
- Kyanite
- Sillimanite and bauxite suppliers
- Calcined alumina and cement makers
- Gas or oil suppliers
Credit and cash
Gives 30-90 days; relining jobs with 30% advance; buys clays on 15-30 days
Stock built before shutdown seasons; crews and materials paid before relining money comes
Your screens use your words
ItemGradeInvoiceTax invoicedocumentTest certificate
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a refractory and kiln furniture maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Refractory and kiln furniture maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a refractory and kiln furniture makerRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
- Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.
Your AI team
What the AI team does for a refractory and kiln furniture maker
Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Prepares a test certificate for each dispatch from batch results and flags batches below grade
Asks you before sending
Builds an 8-week calendar of customer shutdowns with crews and material, and warns of clashes
Works it out and shows you
Compares quoted and actual cost per relining job, ages dues and drafts reminders, and recosts grades when mineral rates move
Asks you before sending
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How you run
Your routines, already on a timetable
Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.
Every day
8:00 amBatching and pressing
- 1Weigh fireclay grog and alumina minerals by recipe
- 2Muller mix and press or ram; count green pieces
11:00 amLab tests and certificates
- 1Cold crushing strength and apparent porosity on fired samples
- 2Alumina % and PCE for each batch
- 3Issue test certificate with dispatch
8:00 pmKiln firing log
- 1Peak firing temperature
- 2Gas or oil used per firing
Every week
Mon 10:00 amCustomer shutdown and crew plan
- 1Customer shutdown dates for the next 8 weeks
- 2Crews and material per job
Every month
5thRelining job costing
- 1Quoted against actual cost per job
- 2Age customer dues and send reminders
20thRaw material rate review
- 1Update bauxite, alumina and kyanite rates
- 2Recost grades and revise quotes
Every year
MarConsent and factory licence renewal
- 1SPCB consent, factory licence and insurance
Workflows
Each stage goes to the person who handles it
Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.
Relining job
- 1Customer shutdown date and scope
- 2Quote and advance approvedNeeds approval
- 3Material and crew planned
- 4Kiln relined
- 5Customer signs completionNeeds approval
- 6Invoiced and paid
Registers and SOPs
Your registers and standards
Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.
Batch and test certificate
Relining job
Orders and dues
Refractory batch testing
Every batch meets its grade before dispatch
Relining site safety
Work safely inside customer kilns
Items and licences
Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses
Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Fireclay brick, moderate heat duty (IS 6) | 6902 | 18% |
| Fireclay brick, high heat duty (IS 8) | 6902 | 18% |
| High alumina brick 70% | 6902 | 18% |
| Insulation brick | 6902 | 18% |
| Fireclay block or special shape | 6902 | 18% |
| Refractory castable | 3816 | 18% |
| High alumina mortar | 3816 | 18% |
| Kiln batt (cordierite) | 6903 | 18% |
| Sagger and setter | 6903 | 18% |
| Kiln or furnace relining job | 9987 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- PAN
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- GeM seller registrationIf it applies
- Insurance policy
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerCustomer projects and quotes, relining contracts, raw material buying, credit.
Production supervisorBatching, pressing and ramming, drying and firing, kiln log.
Lab technicianAlumina, CCS, porosity and PCE tests, test certificates.
Relining team leaderPlans crews, relines kilns and furnaces at customer sites, gets completion certificate.
Not covered yet
- Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
- Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.
Questions people ask
How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a refractory and kiln furniture maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Refractory and kiln furniture maker". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Do I have to type all of this in?
No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.
Can I change the routines and workflows?
Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.
What does the AI team do without asking me?
It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.
Ceramics, glass and stone
Other makers and factories in ceramics, glass and stone
Run a refractory and kiln furniture maker on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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