Your customers
- Boat owners
- Fish auctioneers and traders
- Aqua farmers and harvest contractors
- Seafood processors and peeling sheds
- Vendors and caterers (summer)
Farming and dairy · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a block ice plant
Set up the way a block ice plant runs: sale of block and crushed ice to boats, fish traders, aqua farms at harvest, processors, and in summer to juice and drink vendors and events; delivery charges. 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 block ice plant deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Power is half the cost, and no one sees kWh per tonne rising. Boat and trader credit piles up through the season.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a block ice plant, 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.
Your suppliers
- State power utility
- Ammonia gas supplier
- Salt for brine
- Can and spares fabricators
- Compressor mechanic
- Water source or tanker
Credit and cash
Boats on trip credit through the agent or weekly; traders weekly; vendors cash; power bill monthly with a security deposit
Power bill monthly and heavy; daily cash and weekly collections from boats and traders; ban months bring little income but fixed power demand charges.
Your screens use your words
OrderIce orderItemBlockInvoiceDelivery slipproductIce
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a block ice plant
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Block ice plant", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a block ice plantRoutines, 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 block ice plant
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.
Works out kWh per tonne each day, compares with the plant's normal, and flags days and shifts that burnt more power or broke more blocks
Works it out and shows you
Prepares weekly bills by customer and agent account, ages dues and drafts reminders
Asks you before sending
Reminds the monthly ammonia drill, pressure vessel tests, water tests and licence renewals, and lists any leak marks logged
Works it out and shows you
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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
6:00 amShift block harvest (each 8-hour shift)
- 1Pull the due row of cans; thaw and tip the blocks
- 2Count good and broken blocks
- 3Rinse and refill cans with potable water only; no brine splashed into cans
8:00 amBrine and compressor readings (every 2 hours)
- 1Brine temperature
- 2Suction and discharge pressure within the compressor maker's range
- 3Energy meter reading
- 4Sniff and test with sulphur stick or litmus at valves and joints
8:00 pmPower per tonne of ice
- 1kWh used and tonnes harvested today
- 2Flag a day above the usual kWh per tonne (often 70-90)
Every week
Sat 10:00 amWeekly bills and collection
- 1Bill each boat, agent and trader for the week
- 2Collect; hold supply for accounts over the limit unless the owner approves
Every month
10thMonthly ammonia safety check and drill
- 1Gas masks with live canisters, gloves and goggles in place
- 2Emergency water spray and king valve access clear
- 3Ten-minute drill: who shuts what and where everyone goes
Every year
JanFactory licence, pressure vessel test and consent renewal
- 1Renew the factory licence and pollution consent
- 2Pressure vessels and receivers tested by a competent person
- 3Fire NOC and FSSAI licence renewal dates checked
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.
Ice order to payment
- 1Order taken (blocks or crushed tonnes)
- 2Credit checkedNeeds approval
- 3Crushed and loaded
- 4Slip signed by customer
- 5Paid
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.
Block harvest log
Compressor and power log
Deliveries and credit
Ammonia refrigeration safety
No leak, no injury, no fire
Hygienic ice for fish
Ice that touches fish must be safe as food ice
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Block ice (50 kg) | 22019010 | 5% |
| Crushed ice (loose) | 22019010 | 5% |
| Edible ice for drinks and juice | 22019010 | 5% |
| Ice delivery charge | 996511 | 5% |
| Cold storage space for fish boxes | 996721 | 18% |
- Factory licence
- FSSAI food licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Fire NOC
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Weighing scale stampingIf it applies
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerFixes rates and credit, deals with the power utility and big customers, approves repairs.
Plant operatorRuns compressors, watches brine temperature and pressures, logs readings, handles ammonia.
Can pullerPulls and refills cans, thaws and tips blocks, loads and crushes.
Billing clerkWrites delivery slips, keeps customer credit, collects.
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 block ice plant?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Block ice plant". 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.
Farming and dairy
Other makers and factories in farming and dairy
Run a block ice plant 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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