Your customers
- Tool and hardware dealers
- Machine tool makers
- CNC job shops
- Export buyers
- ITIs and government buyers
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a chuck and vice maker
Set up the way a chuck and vice maker runs: sale of chucks, vices, centres, tool posts and other accessories to dealers, machine tool makers and exporters; spare jaws and keys. 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 chuck and vice maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Popular sizes run out while slow sizes sit for a year. Heat treatment lots come back late, short or soft.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 8 licences for a chuck and vice 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.
- foundry and steel
- accessories maker
- dealer or machine builder
- workshop
Your suppliers
- Grey and SG iron foundries
- Steel stockists (alloy steel bars)
- Forging units
- Heat treatment job shops
- Grinding wheel dealers
- Packing box makers
Credit and cash
Dealers 30-60 days with a year-end turnover scheme; machine tool makers 30-45 days; exporters advance or LC; castings 30-60 days; heat treatment paid monthly
Size-wise batches mean stock of 30-60 sizes is held for 2-4 months; dealer money comes 45-75 days after dispatch
Your screens use your words
CustomerDealerItemSizeInvoiceBill
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a chuck and vice 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 "Chuck and vice maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a chuck and vice 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 chuck and vice 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.
Lists sizes below minimum and suggests the next size batches by how fast each size sells
Works it out and shows you
Shows lots at each job worker with days out, pieces short and soft lots, and lists the ITC-04 entries for the quarter
Works it out and shows you
Drafts dealer statements and reminders and lists dealers to hold
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
9:00 amMorning size batch plan
- 1Check sizes below minimum stock
- 2Pick the next size batch for machining
- 3Check castings and steel in hand for it
4:00 pmDaily run-out test of assembled chucks
- 1Mount each chuck on the test arbor
- 2Run-out at the jaw near the face
- 3Jaw grip and scroll movement smooth
Every week
Tue 11:00 amWeekly heat treatment lot follow-up
- 1List lots at job workers over 7 days
- 2Check hardness of returned lots
- 3Reconcile pieces sent against pieces back
Thu 2:00 pmWeekly dealer dispatch
- 1Pack dealer orders with test card in each box
- 2Book transport and send LR and invoice
Every month
5thMonthly dealer statements and reminders
- 1Send each dealer a statement
- 2List dues over 60 days
- 3Owner approves holding orders for dealers over the limit
10thMonthly casting and steel cost check
- 1Note casting rate per kg and steel rate
- 2Recompute cost of the top 10 sizes
- 3Decide whether to revise the price list
Every year
MarYear-end dealer scheme settlement
- 1Work out each dealer's turnover and scheme
- 2Issue credit notes after dues are cleared
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.
Size batch to packed stock
- 1Bodies and jaws machined
- 2Sent for heat treatment
- 3Hardness checked on return
- 4Ground and assembled
- 5Run-out tested and packed
- 6Batch released to stockNeeds approval
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.
Size-wise stock book
Heat treatment and job-work issue register
Chuck run-out test record
Chuck accuracy test
Every chuck grips true and holds its run-out over the full jaw range
Hardness check of heat-treated parts
Jaws, scrolls and pinions are hard enough to wear well but not brittle
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3-jaw self-centring lathe chuck 160 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| 3-jaw self-centring lathe chuck 200 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| 4-jaw independent chuck 250 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| Keyed drill chuck 13 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| Machine vice 150 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| Revolving live centre MT3 | 8466 | 18% |
| Quick-change tool post set | 8466 | 18% |
| Collet set ER32 (18 pieces) | 8466 | 18% |
| Rotary table 250 mm | 8466 | 18% |
| Spare hard jaws set | 8466 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf 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 price list and dealer schemes, handles export buyers, buys castings and steel.
Production supervisorPlans size batches, sends parts for heat treatment, checks run-out.
MachinistTurns bodies, cuts scrolls and jaws on CNC and milling machines.
Grinder and assemblerGrinds jaws and scrolls, assembles chucks and vices, tests run-out.
Dispatch and accounts clerkPacks, invoices, sends LR to dealers, keeps dealer ledgers.
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 chuck and vice maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Chuck and vice 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.
Metals and engineering
Other makers and factories in metals and engineering
Run a chuck and vice 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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